Wow! It's a great honor to receive this Information is Beautiful Award. Thanks to @datawrapper.de for letting me inspire people. And thanks to everyone else who's contributing to the lovely #dataviz community! Find all #IIBAwards winners here: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...

📊 There are *so* many chart types out there. Which one should you use for what kind of data and goal? I tried to answer the question in a new blog post (and poster!): www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-t...

I just added lots of new content to my website! lisacharlottemuth.com → #dataviz projects & articles I've worked on at @datawrapper.de in the past years → a new "Events" page with information about the Data Vis Meetup, the Data Vis Book Club, and the Unwrapped conference → an updated About me page

🌈 Jan's tool looks amazing to find a #dataviz palette! A similar tool is the Python Color Palette Finder by @yan-holtz.bsky.social: python-graph-gallery.com/color-palett... What I like about Jan's tool is that I can browse palettes *by chart type* – so smart. (This, and the German name.)

Yay, another small multiple chart type in Datawrapper! It's been lots of fun to play around with it so far:

A favorite recent project: Peakscapes. I love the layered looks you get in the #mountains, and I always want to be able to name everything in view. These designs provide a cleaner, more idealized view of the landscape than a photo can. Are they #maps? Or geographic art? I'm not sure.

It was fun putting this together! Have a look and let me know what you think:

Curious how different news sites visualize U.S. election results? Here are 25+ links — let me know in the comments which ones I missed! U.S. news sites =============== → The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... → The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/elections/re...

🎉 New blog post! Choosing colors for a #dataviz on race, ethnicity or continents can be tricky. I collected lots of examples and wrote down 6 guidelines to help ensure all your readers feel respected by your color choices: blog.datawrapper.de/colors-for-r...

I'm really looking forward to Rose's findings here! Might be interesting for others who like #dataviz 📊, too:

I'm excited to be on the list of speakers for the upcoming Datawrapper conference. I'll get to talk about what data journalists love most: hacking tools until you find crazy, but useful workarounds. #dataviz 📊

📊 I'm much looking forward to this talk at the Unwrapped conference (www.datawrapper.de/unwrapped):

This week's Effect+Affect: What can dinner parties teach us about dataviz 📊? Thanks to ensemble perception, your brain is weirdly good at parallel processing faces, grass, and zillions of lines on charts. effaff.com/read-the-room-ensemble-effect/

📣📊 The next data vis book club is happening Friday, March 15th at 7pm UTC during our Unwrapped conference! We'll be discussing "The Art of Insight" by @albertocairo.bsky.social. Find all the information for this special session here: blog.datawrapper.de/art-of-insig...

If you want to find and follow people posting great 📊 data viz content, I can recommend following everyone Andy's following.

🎉📊 New blog post! And — you guessed it — it's about small multiple line charts. When to use them instead of line charts? And how to make them easier to read and more beautiful to look at? Our writer @lisacmuth.bsky.social covers the do's and don'ts: blog.datawrapper.de/what-to-cons...

There's a new chart type in Datawrapper 🎉 And it's one of my favorites: Small multiple line charts. I'm excited to see what you all (and we) will build with it!

📊 Connected scatterplots: Good or bad? Fun or frustrating? My colleague Luc Guillemot has opinions about them:

It's happening! I'm thrilled to announce the first three speakers (of more than 20!) who will give a talk at the Datawrapper conference Unwrapped:

📊 Yesterday was Data Vis Dispatch day! The lateste episode includes the Taiwan elections 🗳️, shipping routes 🚢, and a very hot 2023 🔥: blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dis...

If you’re at all interested in talking about data viz, sign up for the feed so we can chat with you!

I think small multiples may be my favorite visualization technique. I love how these maps from the @nytimes.com give a sense of the polar vortex dissolving from a concentrated mass of bitter cold air to a much larger area of merely very cold air. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

YES YOU SHOULD! Let me know if you have any questions about it, here or via [email protected].

"Speaking at a conference" is your New Year's resolution? Lucky you: There's ONE day left to tell us about your talk ideas for Unwrapped, our conference for Datawrapper users like you. Here's what we're looking for: blog.datawrapper.de/call-for-spe...

Join me on Jan 29th - I’m such a fan of the @datawrapper.bsky.social Data Vis Book Club which makes it all the more special an honour to be taking part as an author. Looking forward to chatting and answering questions!

#TodayinHistory #datavis #Onthisday #OTD 💀Jan 5, 1897 Francis Amasa Walker died in Boston, MA, USA 🇺🇸 1874: Oversaw the first US Census Album (1870) Pioneered: Age pyramid (bilateral histogram), subdivided squares of population (mosaic plots) www.davidrumsey.com/maps1130261-...

It's here! Check out the data viz feed below, open to sharing work & all kinds of discussion related to the field. To participate in the feed you must: - Include 📊 in your post - Be added to the account list. Sign up here: forms.gle/4iVMTBgTycXW... Excited to continued discussions with you!

This is a soft launch just for Bluesky people! In Feb I'm launching the 'Visualising Data Newsletter' offering a monthly chronicle of the most insightful and delightful data viz content, straight to your inbox. More info soon but you can sign up here... visualisingdata.ck.page/b9efcf751f

Happy New Year! I compiled all 2023 graphics/dataviz/visual stories compilations I could find. Let me know if I missed any:

Data viz folks: I'm interested in creating a data viz feed. Some good ones already exist, but aren't quite what I'm looking for. I'm thinking about a combo of adding users to a feed (opt in) + a tag/emoji so only specific posts show in the feed. I'm curious: what would your ideal feed look like?

Nathan is here! Do follow Nathan! And have a look at his latest graphics here: flowingdata.com/category/pro...

We've reached the final #LittleVis revisit! 75 posts later and we conclude with this smart way to add further context to a colour legend visualisingdata.com/2022/07/the-... If you've enjoyed the #LittleVis posts you can see the full series here visualisingdata.com/the-little-o...

I'm annoyed by the number of social networks these days, so I've decided to only read the feed of one of them for a month and then switch. (I'll still post & check notifications on each of them.) I start here, with Bluesky. I'm looking forward to all your data visualizations, links, and opinions!

Like many, an @albertocairo.bsky.social book was my gateway to information graphics. We are so lucky to have his continued enthusiasm for the craft and its creators—in print!

So I do this experiment every 6 months where I put photo paper in a can with a tiny hole to record the sun light… Well, this year's #solargraphy didn't quite work out as planned — paper got wet, not enough light, … but there is some beauty to the imperfection as well.

I'm so happy that this is going to happen. Let me know if you have any questions about our call for speakers!

Hi! I'm trying to post more here. Like this: Today I published a blog post that will hopefully help all of you who love data vis, but have no idea how to go from there to "actually creating great data vis". It's full of my learnings from many years. Find it here: blog.datawrapper.de/how-to-get-s...