About Us
The Datawrapper Blog is a blog written by a bunch of people who work on Datawrapper. We love data visualizations, and we created this place to talk about them.
The mission of this blog is to teach you how to better visualize data. Sometimes we’ll learn with you, answering questions that both you and we might have. We will experiment with charts, maps, and tables. And since data vis is a field with different approaches, we will tell you our opinions and invite you to disagree.
This blog is for everyone who visualizes data. Yes, we mention Datawrapper as an example quite often. And you see many visualizations on this blog that are created with our tool. (For example, our articles in Datawrapper News are about new features and probably mostly interesting for you if you’re a Datawrapper user.) But even if you don’t use our tool, we hope that the articles in categories like Data Vis Dispatch, Data Vis Do’s and Don’ts, and our Weekly Charts are helpful for you.
What’s Datawrapper?
Datawrapper is a tool we built to make it easy for journalists and other communicators to create simple charts, maps, and tables. To create a visualization, you paste in your numbers and choose a visualization type. We make sure that the visualization you’ll embed in your article at the end is beautiful, responsive, and interactive.
You can learn more about Datawrapper on our website: datawrapper.de
Who’s writing on this blog?
Most of our articles are written by our communications team, Lisa and Rose. Their job is to take care of this blog. However, we want everyone who works at Datawrapper to share their thought. So you will find articles from all of us, especially in the Weekly Charts category. If you’re curious about who works at Datawrapper right now, visit our About Us page on datawrapper.de.
We also feature articles written by our users on our blog. If writing a guest post sounds interesting to you, get in touch with us at blog@datawrapper.de and we’ll be happy to help you get your thoughts out. (We won’t publish guest posts that exist to promote your platform/product, so please don’t bother getting in touch with that – thank you!)
I want to get in touch with you!
You found a mistake? You want us to write about a certain topic? You disagree strongly with one of our articles, and want to make sure we know why? Please get in touch with us! We’re always happy to hear from you:
- If you have ideas, questions or comments regarding the blog, write to blog@datawrapper.de.
- If you have technical questions about Datawrapper, let us know at support@datawrapper.de.
- If you prefer Twitter, tweet at us @datawrapper or write us a Direct Message (our DMs are open).
Can I reuse or translate the content on your blog?
Yes. Our blog posts are under the CC BY-SA license and you can reuse and translate them as long they stay digital. Do get in touch with us at blog@datawrapper.de to check if we’re ok to see our content in your printed matter.
That means that you can publish our articles on your site, show our images in your presentations and even make money with our content – as long as you give as credit, link to our original blog post & let your audience know if you made changes to our material. These changes need to be shared under a CC BY-SA license as well.
We’re also very happy to see translations of our blog posts. Let us know about your translation so that we can link to it in the original blog post.
I want to know about your newest things!
Sweet! We’re more than happy to keep you updated. We have three newsletters, one for Datawrapper News, one for all blog posts except Weekly Charts, and one for all Weekly Charts. Click here to sign up to our newsletters.