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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 14h

Really interesting data, thank you! Have you considered a stacked column chart for that data? I believe it could communicate the gaps between the recorded years a bit better.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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...

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Why I changed my mind on dual-axis charts | Datawrapper Blog

Dual-axis charts can be… okay?

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We (well, ZEIT) even got a word for „getting knocked out in the round of 32“

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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...

moultano.wordpress.com

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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Robert Kosara @eagereyes.org · 21/06/2026

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

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Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 18/06/2026

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

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Oh nice! Can you please try again? I just changed who can message me.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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!

Hello there! Do you like to design and talk about charts?

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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! 📊

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 08/06/2026

🎉 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."

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Byte Charts @byte-charts.dev · 06/06/2026

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

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#6 | 1 dataset. 100 visualizations.

Stacked bar chart with rounded corners. A strength of this visualization is the integration of numbers and years, which makes a legend superfluous.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

(There's no option for diverging color scales, though – if you want to create one, Gregor's tool is best.)

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🟡🟠🔴 Just stumbled upon a great gradient/color palette generator by @obumbratta.com: obumbratta.com/colour It's inspired by Gregor Aisch's Color Palette Helper (gka.github.io/palettes/#/9...) and brings it to the next level with a color plot, contrast ratios, and different color spaces. 📊

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It’s too good to not feature it 😍

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So deserved; you’re producing great graphics these days. What’s the best way to learn about new ones/vis-heavy articles from NBC News? We want to make sure we don’t miss any!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’m happy to hear those micro-details have a name; thank you!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And if you want to see more slides/talks I prepared, you can find them here: lisacharlottemuth.com/talks

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Talks

Hi! My name is Lisa. I talk, create and write about data vis.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

By the way: If you have to prepare a talk in the future, I can highly recommend to read through @13pt.com's "How to give a talk." Like everything he does, it's really good. style.org/talk/

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How to Give a Talk

My farewell talk at The New York Times.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My first (short, German) talk in years (!) is happening tomorrow at Information Commons in Berlin (information-commons.org). I'll speak about what got me excited about data vis and what we do at Datawrapper. Here are my slides:

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yes, one of my favorite details in any visualization out there 😍

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks! Definitely not perfectly optimized for mobile 🙈 Oh, and the Size of Canada annotations are hacky as heck! I hoped that I could prefix an empty nbsp; but no. I had to disable the tooltips to hide it. I wonder if there’s a better option!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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:

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Lot of circles this week

Chart from The Economist showing reported strikes in Iran
https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/04/08/the-war-was-steadily-spiralling-in-scope-and-destruction

Chart from The Economist showing global non-financial list companies
https://www.economist.com/interactive/business/2026/04/09/a-giant-succession-wave-is-coming-for-family-businesses

Chart from The Economist showing four Democratic tribes
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/04/07/meet-the-four-democratic-tribes

Chart from The Economist showing gerrymandering in Hungary
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/04/09/even-hungarys-skewed-elections-might-not-save-viktor-orban

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My first humble Weekly Chart this year:

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Oh nice, thanks for letting me know!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thanks, Ben – means a lot coming from you! I definitely had you in mind when I wrote about "all the other people giving back to the community". Thanks for all the work you do!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Ha, I can picture that very well. So nice of you! Thanks, Neil; it's much appreciated!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thanks for the kind words, Frank – but more importantly, thanks for all the work *you* do for the community! As *the* accessibility advocate in the scene, with all the great articles, talks, and workshops you share, I wouldn’t have been surprised if you’d ended up with that award. Very soon, I hope!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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...

Picture of me and the text "Impactful Community Leader, Lisa Charlotte Muth, Datawrapper" below and the text "Information is Beautiful Awards 2024 Winner" in a badge.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📊 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...

A poster showing icons for 40 different visualization types, categorized by goal – e.g. "showing shares" or "showing flows" or "showing developments over time".

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Thanks for doing and sharing your research – fascinating! I really like the split continents map; haven't see this before. Other mobile-friendly map approaches I know are → splitting a map in the middle (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...) → rotating the map (www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/pol...)

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I talk about more (data-vis-focused) tools and methods for finding a good categorical color palette here: www.datawrapper.de/blog/create-...

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How to find & create good color palettes | Datawrapper Blog

Tools and approaches for finding, coming up with, and extending a color palette.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

🌈 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.)

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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

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Chaney Swiney @chaneyswiney.com · 05/12/2024

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.

Image of the Black Mountains in North Carolina, cast in a gradient reminiscent of sunset hues: orange at the top to dark purple at the bottom. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations.

Image of Half Dome and its surroundings in Yosemite National Park, cast in a gradient of yellowish blue. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations.

Image of the Front Range in Rocky Mountain National Park, cast in a gradient of yellow to red. Summits are labeled with their names and elevations.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Thanks for attending and commenting, Sonja, and thanks to all the other panelists! Definitely a fun and interesting conversation.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I only ordered it (roughly) by start date of the first seasons, but that bit about Sherlock could be true! I remember loving that show from the first season and being confused by the long waiting times. I wasn't used to it at all (yet!).

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank you, Morgan! Super happy to hear that the grid did for you what I wanted it to do.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oh yeah, definitely. I read somewhere that because viewers don't remember the plot or even the big cliffhanger in the season finale after waiting for years, they can be less motivated to watch the next season. I can see that!

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Danke dir! Die Bezeichnungen sind auf jeden Fall sehr unglücklich, weil Hautfarbe so wenig mit race zu tun hat! Aber solange sich niemand dadurch diskriminiert fühlt und wir keine besseren haben, kann und sollte man sie in der Kommunikation im amerikanischen Raum schon verwenden.

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

→ NZZ 🇨🇭: www.nzz.ch/internationa... → La Repubblica 🇮🇹: www.repubblica.it/esteri/2024/...

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