This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers London buses 🔴🚌, the WNBA 🏀, AI mania 🤖, Zurich's job market 🇨🇭, Trump's approval rating 📉, Nepal’s large-scale DNA identification program 👥, and problem gambling 🎰. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog👇
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As we say goodbye to summer, our developer Hendrik looks back on the hottest days to review a seasonal purchase: a single-unit air conditioner! 🌬️ 🥵 🪟
Considering one for next year? Read about his experience on our blog 👇️
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ALT Line chart comparing room and outside temperatures from 6 am Jul 31 to midday Aug 1, highlighting AC switched on around midnight that cooled the room ~6°C, with room temperature later rebounding.
ALT Line chart titled "Heat accumulated over a few days — even with AC on." Room temperature remains consistently higher than outside from Aug 2–6, showing daily peaks around 30–33°C and warm nights; the brown line (room) indicates gradual heat accumulation despite AC while the grey line (outside) swings more sharply.
📈 Today! The "Getting started with Datawrapper" webinar starts at 6pm CET / 12pm EDT.
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This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers laughing with an accent 🎙️, experts' and the public's opinions on AI ✏️, automated warfare 🪖, the gender pay gap 💵, a data lobby 🏢, and low birth rates 📉. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog👇
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📊 This week: "Getting started with Datawrapper" on Thursday, Sept 24 at 6pm CET / 12pm EDT.
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Are you team cash or no cash? Our developer Linus charts the differences in how people make payments in Sweden and Germany, as examples of two ends of the spectrum, both moving in the same direction but at very different speeds. 💰️ ⚖️ 💳️
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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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ALT 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.
ALT 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.
ALT 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.
ALT A collection of maps tracking the shape and size of Africa across various projections. Published by EL PAÍS.
📊 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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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. 🗺️ 📍 🍻
Read more about the movement and its consequences on our blog:
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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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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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ALT 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.
ALT 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).
ALT 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.
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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📊 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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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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📊🤖⚽️ 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.
Find it all here: datawrapper.de/blog/data-vis…
ALT 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.
ALT 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.
ALT 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.
ALT 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.
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!).
Learn more: datawrapper.de/academy/range…
Did you notice that new technology doesn't get cheaper with time anymore? Our vis developer Elliot did and looked into the reasons (and data) behind it. 📈 👀 🎮️
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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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Our team members have attended these sessions in the past and have found them insightful. We highly recommend them to anyone looking to learn more about Datawrapper.
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