What Lisa writes, designs and talks about.
Alexander von Humboldt in the library of his apartment at Oranienburger Straße 67 in Berlin, 1856. I live two kilometers away, but I’m not quite there yet. My content now lives on my site – more than ever, that is. Over the past few weeks, I’ve created a new space on this website where I can keep a collection of almost “everything” I’ve ever published online, and one where I can write journal-like…
I’m one of those people on the right, enjoying the outdoors after posting on my Jekyll blog. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Italian Landscape , 1835 My whole website runs on Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages . I like Jekyll because I understand it: Every single post is a Markdown file. All images live in one folder. Templates for posts use HTML, CSS, and a simple language called Liquid which I enjoy…
2025 isn’t over yet, but we already published quite a few feature announcements for which I created charts: For our feature announcement “New: Combine series with different intervals in line charts”. Read it here. For our feature announcement “New: Add comparison columns for election reporting and more”. Read it here. For our feature announcement “New: Small multiple column charts in Datawrapper”.…
In 2024, we released a lot of new features into the world and hence published an unusual high number of feature announcements . For some of them, I created charts showing off the new options. And yes, I got to write a few Weekly Charts , too. Most noticably: We’re waiting longer than ever for our favorite TV shows to return A bad chart got better – and then bad again Here’s more: For my Weekly…
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📝 This blog post lives somewhere else I posted this article elsewhere (most likely on the Datawrapper blog), which is why you don't see the full content here. Read the full article on the original site Since the early 2000s, wait times between seasons have gone up.
📝 This blog post lives somewhere else I posted this article elsewhere (most likely on the Datawrapper blog), which is why you don't see the full content here. Read the full article on the original site ...so that all readers feel respected.
📝 This blog post lives somewhere else I posted this article elsewhere (most likely on the Datawrapper blog), which is why you don't see the full content here. Read the full article on the original site "But is that last chart overkill? Probably."
I organized the first free, virtual Datawrapper conference from March 13–15, 2024, with 33 speakers giving 30 talks. You can learn more about it here: all talk recordings on YouTube / blog posts about all speakers / agenda as PDF . The keynote speaker was Amanda Cox , and we could win speakers from the Los Angeles Times , El País , Axios , YouGov , Reuters , AP , The Times , Zeit Online , Spiegel…
📝 This blog post lives somewhere else I posted this article elsewhere (most likely on the Datawrapper blog), which is why you don't see the full content here. Read the full article on the original site When should you use line charts and when small multiple line charts?