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📈 Today! "Dual-axis & waterfall charts" starts at 6pm CET / 12pm EDT.

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Intro to dual-axis and waterfall charts
Get to know our newest chart types! Our product specialist Guillermina will show you what waterfall and dual-axis charts are good for, explain the pitfalls...
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September 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers Apple's iPhone launches 📱, the European Waste Awards 🗑️🏆, the 25th anniversary of 9/11 🇺🇸, “coolcations” ❄️, the 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections, and AI warnings 🤖⚠️. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇

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A chart presenting changes in the voting preferences of the American population from the 2024 presidential election to the 2026 midterm election. Around 76% of Kamala Harris’s voters intend to vote Democrat in the upcoming midterms, compared to 65% of Donald Trump’s supporters who intend to vote Republican. Published by The Economist. Two bar charts showcasing the reducing water levels for Lake Powell and Lake mead, Colorado River’s largest reservoirs. Lake Powells water levels is now at 3,517 ft, while Lake Mead is at 1,039 ft. Published by FlowingData. An election chart displaying the number of seats held by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in state parliaments. They currently hold 328 out of 1,884 seats across 15 state parliaments, accounting for a 17.4% share. Published by Berliner Morgenpost. A collection of maps tracking the shape and size of Africa across various projections. Published by EL PAÍS.
September 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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📊 This week: "Dual-axis & waterfall charts" on Wednesday, Sept 16 at 6pm CET / 12pm EDT.

Get to know our newest chart types! Live Q&A included.

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September 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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What did the U.S. liquor industry look like during Prohibition? Shaylee from our support team recreated a map from the 1930s that shows key areas, hotspots, and transportation routes. 🗺️ 📍 🍻

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September 10, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers the Equal Earth map projection 🌍, AI companion users 🤖, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party dominating TikTok 🇩🇪, and the 2026 summer box office 💰🎬. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇

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A chart showing how American counties' average number of days with a heat index exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit has changed over time. Cook County experienced an average of 24 days per year in 1995 compared to 38 days in 2025. Meanwhile, Hidalgo County saw an increase from 190 days in 1995 to 212 days in 2025. Published by the New York Times. A map showing the predicted increase in in-hospital deaths resulting from hot periods between the years 2065 and 2075. The Vienna Central-Southeast area is expected to experience an additional 53.25 in-hospital deaths. Published by Complexity Science Hub. A chart showcasing the financial entanglement of AI company Nvidia and its customers. Nvidia holds equity stakes in many of these companies and has provided financial backing of $297 billion. Published by The Economist. This visualization revealing the increasing temperatures experienced during Hajj cycles. The 2025 cycle took place in June, with temperatures exceeding 43°C. Published by Alexander Bogachev.
September 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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What's in a Berlin street name? As our designer Jona finds, a whole lot of places and history. 🪧 🛣️ 📊

A third of the city's streets are named after places that reflect Berlin's growth, place in the world, and (often troubled) past. 👇️

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One-third of Berlin's streets are named after places, shown by a color-coded city map and bar chart with counts: Rest of Germany 1,361; Rest of Europe 911; Berlin 829; Brandenburg 595; Rest of world 73. Map-based infographic highlighting five Berlin neighborhoods with numbered callouts explaining how their street names reflect colonial, navigational, or other historical origins (Afrikanisches Viertel; Schönhauser Allee; Landsberger Allee; Helmholtzkiez; Kissingenviertel). Bar chart of Berlin street-name counts by country: Poland 328; France 139; Switzerland 94; Austria 83; Russia 54; Czechia 45; Denmark 29; Italy 26; UK 23; Belgium 19; Sweden 16; Norway 12; Netherlands 10; Others 37 — many names reflect former Prussian/German ties.
September 4, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers the Nepal-Tibet floods, Shein’s IPO 👚📊, heat-related deaths🌡️⚠️, Trump's endorsements 🇺🇸, and the Hugging Face incident 🤖. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇

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A map of South America showing the annual average discharge of rivers and precipitation in the watershed. The Amazon River, which carries 20% of the world's freshwater, flows across northern South America. Other colossal rivers include the Orinoco and the Tocantins. Published by Perrin Remonté. A chart displaying the primary candidates endorsed by Donald Trump. Trump has endorsed at least 260 primary candidates, of whom only nine have lost their races. Published by the New York Times. A map showing the changed route taken by Indian LPG tankers due to the Iran War. Since India has turned to the US as a new supply source, the route from India to the US Gulf Coast now takes more than 40 days. Published by Bloomberg. A chart illustrating the ten rebookings of a Mexican woman that occurred at the Pinellas County Jail. For almost a month, the rebookings kept occurring just before the 72-hour time limit was due to expire, in order to keep the woman in custody. Published by ProPublica.
September 1, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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📊 New to Datawrapper or curious about our newest chart types? Join us in September! Both webinars at 6pm CET / 12pm EDT:

Sept 16 ➡️ Dual-axis + waterfall charts
Sept 24 ➡️ Getting started with Datawrapper

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September 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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Electric and hybrid cars come with extra weight. Does going electric put more pressure on the roads than switching to an SUV? Datawrapper's co-founder Gregor Aisch analyzed data on millions of new cars, and this is what he found. 🚙 🔌 👇️

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Bar chart comparing average new-car weights in the EU: combustion 1,479 kg, hybrid (non-plug) 1,631 kg, battery electric 1,878 kg, hybrid (plug‑in) 1,974 kg—showing electric cars ~400 kg heavier than combustion and plug‑in hybrids the heaviest. Comparison of average vehicle weights by size and powertrain, showing battery-electric cars are heavier than combustion and hybrid models — e.g., small: combustion 1,134 kg vs battery electric 1,420 kg; medium-large: 1,484 kg vs 1,888 kg; SUVs: 1,529 kg vs 2,021 kg.
August 28, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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📊🤖⚽️ Our latest Dispatch just dropped, with the best of #dataviz of the last seven days! This time with charts and maps on the AI race, the Premier League, electric cars, cloudberries, clouds, and data art.

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An abstract radial chart where bars of varying length fan out from a single point in a full sweep of rainbow color. It works more as data art than a conventional chart, using length and hue together to create a pinwheel effect. The palette shifts smoothly from reds and oranges into yellows, greens, and blues. A connected scatterplot tracking AI model performance from 2023 to 2026 on a composite intelligence benchmark. Two lines follow the leading US models in blue and the leading Chinese models in orange, both rising steeply, with the newest Chinese model narrowing the gap at the top. A tooltip highlights Anthropic's Opus 5 in the lead with a score of 63. An arrow plot showing how battery electric vehicles' share of car sales has shifted across 12 countries since 2025. Norway sits close to 100%, while most other countries fall somewhere between 20% and 75%. Every arrow points the same way — up — with Singapore climbing the most at +23.7 percentage points. A grid map of northern Europe marking where cloudberries have been recorded between 2010 and 2026. The berries cluster thickly across the Nordics, the Baltics, and parts of the UK, and an annotation points out new growth on Svalbard since 2023. Each orange square stands for a registered occurrence.
August 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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New little feature: your Datawrapper highlight ranges can now have patterns. Those diagonal stripes can make it more obvious that a highlight is an annotation, not part of the data (plus, they look great!).

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August 21, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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Did you notice that new technology doesn't get cheaper with time anymore? Our vis developer @elliotbentley.com did and looked into the reasons (and data) behind it. 📈 👀 🎮️

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Table showing consumer gadget prices rising since launch due to higher memory costs — Motorola Moto G $200→$300 (+50%), Steam Deck OLED 512GB $549→$789 (+44%), Surface Pro 12" $799→$1,049 (+31%), PS5 disc $499→$650 (+30%), MacBook Air $1,099→$1,299 (+18%), Switch 2 $450→$500 (+11%) Four small charts showing consumer memory prices climbing from 2025–2026 as demand soars: 16GB DDR4 +217%, 32GB DDR5 +372%, 1TB hard drive +94%, 500GB SSD +189%, highlighting sharp spikes in prices of RAM and storage memory. Log-scale line chart showing lowest recorded price per terabyte from the 1950s to 2023 for RAM, hard disk drives, flash drives and solid-state storage, declining steeply from trillions of dollars per TB to under $1,000 (and single-digit dollars for some types) by 2023.
August 20, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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You can still register to today's webinar on our new chart types: waterfall and dual-axis charts! The session will start today at 12pm EST / 6pm CET. 📈

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August 20, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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📊 Today! "Getting started with Datawrapper" starts at 12pm EST / 6pm CET.

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Getting started with Datawrapper
Just starting out with Datawrapper, or curious about whether it’s the right tool for your work, research, or personal projects? This webinar is for you! Y...
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August 19, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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📊 We just published our latest Data Vis Dispatch! Find the best of last week's data visualizations – on low water levels 🚢, Europe's heat 🌡️, health 🩺, and the 😂 emoji: www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...
Data art for a library. A grid of squares, each with a circular pattern generated from its data, a coloured bar, and a count above it. Titles range from The Lancet with 17,880 to a paper on virtual influencers, with publication years from 1823 to 2020. A scatterplot of microscope resolution from 1830 to today, with feature size on the left axis and resolving power on the right. Four coloured bands trace the jump from light microscopy at one micrometre to ptychography, which now resolves details finer than 0.01 nanometres. A gridded map of Europe showing the most common concert genre in each area, excluding pop. Rock (blue) dominates most of the continent, with punk clustered in Poland, Latin music in Spain, folk in Ireland, and indie across Italy and parts of France. A grid of small United States maps, one per year from 2016 to July 2025, shaded by how often smoke covered each area. The Pacific Northwest and northern Rockies are darkest, peaking in 2020 and 2021, while 2023 stands out for heavy smoke over the Great Lakes and Northeast.
August 18, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Get to know our newest chart types, dual-axis and waterfall charts! This Thursday, our product specialist Guillermina will demo and explain them live, all in 45min. Register here: watch.getcontrast.io/register/dat...
August 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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New to Datawrapper? Join Wednesday's intro webinar at 12pm EST / 6pm CET 📊

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Getting started with Datawrapper
Just starting out with Datawrapper, or curious about whether it’s the right tool for your work, research, or personal projects? This webinar is for you! Y...
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August 17, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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How should we measure prosperity? Our developer @sarcevic.dev explores an alternative to GDP and compares traditionally wealthy countries with those that contribute most to a happier planet. 🌎️ ⚖️ 💰️

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Connected scatterplot titled "Growing GDP does not guarantee a better life" shows the changes in GDP per capita and life satisfaction in the United States from 2011 to 2025, noting that even though GDP had grown, life satisfaction decreased. Choropleth map titled "How happy is out planet?" shows the Happy Planet Index score by country. The score is a combined measure of life expectancy, life satisfaction, and ecological footprint. Costa Rica ranks first. Table comparing Happy Planet Index rank, life expectancy, life satisfaction, ecological footprint and GDP per capita, showing Costa Rica ranked top with high well‑being and low footprint, while wealthy countries (U.S., Singapore, Luxembourg) have large footprints and high GDP.
August 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers tomorrow's total solar eclipse 🌑☀️, urban and sea surface temperatures 🌆🌊, gun ownership in Thailand, prejudice in ChatGPT 🤖, and the recent earthquake in Colombia. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇

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A chart illustrating the estimated number of people exposed to extreme temperatures. Around 204 million people, equivalent to 56% of Western Europe's population, are expected to experience temperatures 5°C or more above the historical norm. Published by Reuters. A map visualizing the portion of the Sun that will be obscured by the Moon on August 12, 2026. The darkest section highlighted on the map marks the zone that will experience a total solar eclipse, while the zones further away will experience a partial solar eclipse. Published by Die Zeit. A chart illustrating the number of forest fires in Catalonia between 1968 and 2026. Although there were more than 11,000 forest fires in total, only 0.5% of these were considered large forest fires. Published by Nació Digital. A chart visualizing the Jobseeker allowance in Australian dollars. While recipients receive $963.75, it is often insufficient to cover all living costs, resulting in debt for recipients. Published by ABC News & Headlines.
August 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Pride events were born of protest over fifty years ago and have since been celebrated, on and off, in 96 countries. In light of recent events, our developer Erle decided to chart a global history of Pride and the evolution of the pride flag. 🏳️‍🌈 🌎️ 🕯️

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A range plot titled "Since 1970, Prides have been held all over the world" shows the timeline of pride events held per country, grouped by continent. The United States have the longest running pride tradition, holding events since 1970. Image of the typical pride flag with 6 rainbow colored stripes. Image of the original pride flag, consisting of 8 rainbow colored stripes.
August 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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🌎️ Today! "Datawrapper maps: Deep dive" starts at 12pm EST / 6pm CET.

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Datawrapper maps: Deep dive
Are you already familiar with Datawrapper and interested in exploring its advanced features for creating maps? This webinar is for you! Join us to dive dee...
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August 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers the upcoming total solar eclipse 🕶️, Europe’s heatwaves and wildfires ☀️🔥, chatbot lawsuits 🤖, Big Mac prices 🍔, and the rapid spread of fake news. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇

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A visualization illustrating the spread of fake news. When fake news is debunked by a single source, 79.5% of the population see the fake news, but not the correction. However, when fake news is debunked by multiple sources, the truth spreads much faster, with only 13.4% of the population seeing the fake news but not the correction. Published by The Straits Times. An infographic illustrating European cities implementing vegetation on buildings to support climate adaptation. Berlin ranks first with 5.4% of roof areas covered by vegetation, followed by Paris with 3.7%, London with 1.3%, and finally Amsterdam with 1%. Published by The European Correspondent. An infographic visualizing the components of a Big Mac and their percentages of the total price. Labour accounts for the largest proportion of the price at 45.6%, followed by bread at 12.1%. The onion makes up the lowest amount, at 0.5%. Published by The Economist. A timeline of attacks, conflicts and negotiations between the United States and Iran regarding the Iran war. Although the two countries agreed to a two-week ceasefire in April following weeks of fighting, numerous attacks have been reported since then. Published by The New York Times.
August 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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📊 Here are our webinars for this month! Free, live sessions with real-time Q&A.

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August 3, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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A flashing sign made with Datawrapper? 🚨 Our support specialist Michi shares a workaround that makes animated visualizations possible. 🤫 🛎️

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July 30, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers Trump's crypto empire, Epstein’s flight booking network, overcrowded holding rooms, Europe's wildfires, and mega-donors influencing U.S. politics. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇

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A map visualizing flights to cities with Epstein properties between 2009 and 2019. More than 3,700 flights were booked during this period. Published by Bloomberg. A chart showcasing Spain’s winning World Cup goal. Ferran Torres, Spain's number seven, scored the winning goal, helping the team win the tournament. Published by AS. A chart visualizing Trump and his family's crypto network, which has added billions to his wealth. Published by Molly White. A visualization showcasing detainees being held in overcrowded holding rooms. At its most crowded, each person had about 10 square feet of space, the equivalent of an old-fashioned phone booth. Published by The Washington Post.
July 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM