Datawrapper Blog
The Datawrapper team
The blog of the charting tool Datawrapper: weekly charts with the reasoning behind them, and long guides on chart design.
What you will find
- Weekly charts made by the team, with notes on each design choice
- Guides on colour, fonts, labels and chart types
- Articles on accessible charts: contrast, colour-blind safe palettes and alt text
What we can learn from it
- 01Small explained choices add up: direct labels over legends, colour only for emphasis
- 02Accessibility is a default, not an extra
Chart types you will meet there
Stacked bar chart
Each bar is split into segments, showing a total and what it is made of.
Slope chart
Connects each item’s value at two points in time, so direction and size of change read at a glance.
Choropleth map
Colours each region by a rate or share, showing geographic patterns.
Similar sites
FlowingData
Nathan Yau’s site on visualization and statistics: his own charts, a roundup of good work elsewhere, and tutorials on how to make them.
Storytelling with Data
A blog, podcast and books on communicating with data, known for before and after makeovers of business charts.
Nightingale
The journal of the Data Visualization Society, named after Florence Nightingale: essays, interviews and history from people who make charts.