Datawrapper is
Enrich your stories with charts, maps, and tables.
Datawrapper has been seen in the wild in the New Zealand Herald, Stuff, RNZ, Newsroom, and The Spinoff. So it’s a useful skill to have in the New Zealand market.
(Yes I know these examples are slightly misleading - exactly why is left as an exercise for the reader)
Go to Figure.NZ and search for Teenage fertility
and go to this page
Remember the /data.csv
trick - convert the url to https://figure.nz/chart/wYHyiilvB9uCUP8O/data.csv
/data.csv
lets us use Datawrapper’s Link external dataset
featureCheck & Describe
tab is often where things go wrongBut the easiest way to see if they are correct is just to carry on
Head back to Check & Describe
and look for columns called Cell X
and Cell Y
The Datawrapper extract includes some meta-data to keep track of where the data came from.
And head back to the Visualize
tab
That looks more like it