Which chart types did our users create in 2024?

Hello, Rose again! It’s time for the last Weekly Chart of 2024.

For 51 weeks of the year, the Weekly Chart is based on a visualization from one of us at Datawrapper. But the last Weekly Chart focuses on your visualizations.

I've been updating this chart for several years now — but this version represents a certain milestone. Up until 2023, it was possible (with a lot of patience) to ask our database for a complete count of every chart created with Datawrapper that year. This year there were so many of you, creating so many visualizations, that a complete count was out of the question! A sample still gives us a good idea of the relative numbers.

A few visualization types stood out to me this year:

• Tables have taken the top slot after eight years of second and third place. They made up 21.6% of published visualizations this year — the most of any chart type, but slightly less than the 22.7% they accounted for in 2023. The more chart types we release (shout out to multiple lines!), the smaller a share it takes to win first place.
• Even as the field gets more and more crowded, split bars have held steady at around 5%. That's let them rise to sixth place, officially in the top half of popular chart types.
• After a few bumps, locator maps have hit their stride and held steady for three years in 8th and 9th place.

Multiple lines weren't the only new option this year. Arrow maps were launched this fall (grouped with symbol and choropleth maps in these charts), and support for text annotations added a world of possibilities for eight chart types from bullet bars to range plots. Around the office, we welcomed several new faces, hosted webinars and book clubs, answered thousands of support messages, launched the "Fix My Chart" blog series, and hosted our first "Unwrapped" conference! You can look at last week's retrospective post to get an overview of Datawrapper's incredibly busy 2024. Here's to more great charts next year!

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That's it for this year — see you next Thursday for the first Weekly Chart of the new one.