Lisa Charlotte Muth

While our Data Vis Dispatch pro @michelleotiji.bsky.social is on vacation, I curated the Dispatch this and last week. So much fun! It's always a joy to look at these great visualizations and be able to get them to a few more people by including them in the Dispatch.

This week, we at @datawrapper.de launched two new chart types: waterfall charts and dual-axis charts. “Dual-axis charts?” I see you thinking. “What? Didn’t you write an article on why they are bad?” I did. Then, @jburnmurdoch.ft.com changed my mind. Here's how: www.datawrapper.de/blog/why-i-c...

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

I've built a solargraph simulator using solar irradiation data. Pick a place on Earth, animate the solargraph, draw just one point per hour for analemma view, or switch to panorama mode that projects the solargraph into a virtual sky you can navigate. eagereyes.org/app/solargraph

Amazing opportunity for #dataviz enthusiasts. Come work with me!

Are you creating great explanatory #dataviz (e.g. in a news or business context) and want to teach others how to become great at data vis, too? Let’s talk!

One of the best parts of my job is coming up with examples for the nice new features that my coworkers at Datawrapper build. I loved playing around with those arrows! 📊

🎉 We've updated our population cartogram with the latest (2023) data from @ourworldindata.org! A lot has changed since the 2018 one, which used 2016 data. Create your own at app.datawrapper.de/create/map > Choropleth map, then search for "population squares."

The 100 Data Viz Project(100.datavizproject.com/data-type/vi...), which I discovered last week while reading @lisacmuth.bsky.social 's blog. It was particularly insightful as a beginner, as it helps you start prototyping ideas in terms of shapes and visual properties. #dataviz

The first phase of digitizing my collection has come to an end. I am very grateful to my students, they did a wonderful job! The result: three massive Hungarian statistical atlases that are unavailable anywhere else, and dozens of data graphics that have never been digitized before. To be continued!

In 2015, Derek Watkins built a chart for The New York Times that I liked so much that two years later, I wrote a whole article about it: www.datawrapper.de/blog/readers... Today, I rebuilt it in Datawrapper with updated data: www.datawrapper.de/_/vnJXh/ That was fun. I should rebuild more charts.

Interesting data! But I feel like the chart would benefit from being transposed, so that it's easier to compare the non-swimmers with each other:

Lot of circles this week

My first humble Weekly Chart this year:

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

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:

🎉 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...

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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 lisa@datawrapper.de.

"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!