Latest improvements

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June, 2025

Jun 27
locator maps
We fixed an issue that caused the map to sometimes not resize to the correct height.
Jun 26
choropleth and symbol maps
Interactive maps can now be navigated via keyboard - first tab into the map, and then use the arrow keys to navigate between regions or symbols. We also added automatic summaries of the the map contents for screen readers.
locator maps
We fixed an issue with markers sometimes not being clickable or draggable even when they appeared interactive.
Jun 24
bar charts, dot plots, range plots and arrow plots
We improved the automatic text for screen readers in all horizontal bar chart types, as well as dot plots, range plots, and arrow plots.
Jun 20
pdf export
We fixed an issue where certain exported charts with multiple fonts would display all text in just a single font.
Jun 16
scatter plots
We fixed an issue that caused custom lines to have a fixed black fill.
Jun 13
bar chats and column charts
We fixed a bug regarding the addition and removal of single legend items.
scatter plots
We fixed a bug whereby size legend was still showing when symbol size was set to fixed.
Jun 6
column charts
We improved the automatic text for screen readers in stacked, grouped, and regular column charts.
Jun 5
locator maps
Map key items for line markers now reflect line width and dashes.
archive
We improved the preview display in the visualization archive modal.
team settings
We updated the navigational structure as well as look & feel of team settings controls.

May, 2025

May 30
pdf export
We improved the display of rounded legend swatches in PDF and SVG export.
May 26
line charts
Fixed a bug that caused the line chart controls to not react to dataset changes when only a single line was displayed.
May 20
locator maps
Fixed a bug that caused locator map marker labels to be displayed at an incorrect offset when no icon was present.
May 19
data upload
We clarified the size limitations of external Google Sheets linked in the Upload step in Datawrapper.
May 13
editor
We fixed an issue regarding the display of image download options.
May 12
locator maps
We have updated the look & feel of locator map editor controls.
May 8
account settings
You can now manually disconnect external sign-in providers from your account in your account settings.

April, 2025

Apr 29
locator maps
The tooltip now supports an expanded set of HTML tags.
Apr 11
team settings
You can now change the filename for the file downloaded from “Get the data” in your charts. Configure it in the Download tab of your team settings.

March, 2025

Mar 31
maps
We added the following maps in March:
  • 🇺🇸 United States: 2024 maps for both lower and upper state legislative districts; judicial districts for Iowa; DPH regions for South Carolina; wards for Washington, DC; 20202 census tracts for Morgan, Muskingum; Perry counties for Ohio; ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) for Cook County, Illinois
  • 🇭🇹 Haiti: Municipalities and sub-municipalities for Port-au-Prince
  • 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi and 🇲🇿 Mozambique: Districts
  • 🇳🇿 New Zealand: Suburbs for Christchurch
  • 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast: departments and sub-prefectures
  • 🇦🇷 Argentina: municipalities for Misiones
  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 2024 Upper Tier Local Authorities (UTLA); 2021 MSOA and LSOA boundaries for Wales; 2024 wards in York
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland: HSE Health Regions
  • 🇩🇪 Germany: 2023 municipalities for Saxony
  • 🇦🇹 Austria: 2025 municipalities
  • 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 2025 ZIP codes
  • 🇮🇸 Iceland: 2024 municipalities
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2020 hromadas
  • ❄️ Arctic Region
  • 🐠 Black Sea and neighbouring countries
choropleth and symbol maps
We fixed an issue where dragging text annotations in Safari browser was laggy.
bar charts, column charts, and multiple columns
It’s now possible to configure if the overlay label is shown in the legend, in our updated Label settings in the overlay editor.
column charts and bar charts
The color legend is now only shown when something has been set to display in it - e.g a customized color, or an overlay. This means that charts no longer display a generic swatch for the overall chart color when that isn’t the case.
Mar 4
multiple column charts
We fixed an issue that prevented dates in the horizontal grid from being localized.
multiple line and multiple column charts
We made vertical grids less visually prominent in relation to horizontal grids. This matches their styles in regular line and column charts.
line charts and multiple line charts
In tooltip settings, when using the “Same as horizontal axis” format option and the horizontal axis is set to “auto”, the date or number format will always match.
Mar 1
scatter plots
Custom line and area layer stacking now reflects the order in which they are defined, rather than being grouped by type.
Mar 21
pie charts
It is now possible to customize the pie and legend labels in the Visualize step, alongside the color customization.
Mar 18
locator maps
We fixed an issue that caused regions in the far north to shift out of the map view on small screens.
Mar 14
bar charts, column charts and scatter plots
The lists used for customizing the visualization colors now reflect changes the user made to the data in Step 2: Check & Describe.
Mar 12
charts
We improved the behavior of inline-editable chart elements such as grid labels.
maps
We added districts for Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳, districts for Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼, and hromadas for Ukraine 🇺🇦. For the USA 🇺🇸, we added new maps for major regions, states with northeast inset circles, New Hampshire floterial districts, Chicago precincts, and San Francisco analysis neighborhoods. We also updated maps of cantons and municipalities for Bosnia & Herzegovina 🇧🇦, municipalities for Croatia 🇭🇷, boroughs for Bottrop and Bayreuth, Germany 🇩🇪, regions for Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸, municipalities for Poland 🇵🇱, and parishes for Denmark 🇩🇰.
Mar 5
tables
Text columns with a header containing a period (.) can now be used to color cells based on categories.
app
We fixed some layout issues of the editor on mobile devices.
bar charts, column charts and multiple column charts
We improved the automatic descriptions of range overlays in legend alt text.

February, 2025

Feb 27
bar charts, dot plots, range plots and arrow plots
When grouping is enabled, the placement of the annotation is now configured by the “group”. For split bar charts, it is determined by both the “group” and the “column” individually.
Feb 26
multiple line and multiple column charts
We improved the way that panel titles are represented in the controls when titles are set to empty spaces.
Feb 25
powerpoint
You can now choose to show or hide all text accessories on individual visualizations.
Feb 24
tables
We added a minimum inherent width to mini charts (aka sparklines) to prevent them from being squashed and becoming unreadable.
Feb 21
multiple line and column charts
You can now move vertical grid labels in these chart types to the right-hand side, and to the left-hand side in right-to-left locales.
Feb 20
line charts
Short texts prepended and appended to values in Step 2: Check & Describe are now respected in value labels.
Feb 18
multiple lines
We fixed an issue that caused the vertical axis to extend to zero when the scale was logarithmic.
Feb 14
tables
For customers on the Custom and Enterprise plans, it is now possible for the custom theme to specify default settings for columns in tables.
custom fields
We added the option to create a Dropdown custom field.
Feb 12
multiple-lines
We fixed a bug where charts would sometimes not respond to changes in the horizontal axis column.
Feb 6
multiple-lines
Lines and tooltips are now correctly rendered for empty categories when using a categorical scale on the horizontal axis.
multiple line charts
We fixed a bug where, when adjusting the panel order through dragging and dropping, the list of panels in the controls did not update.
Feb 7
column charts
New: Add comparison columns for election reporting and more
You can now show context data as additional columns behind your main columns. This update includes the options to show the main values under your columns and to show a label with the numeric difference. Learn more on our blog.
column charts
You can now set column labels to use the same color as the column. With the option Use column color for labels, in the Appearance group.
multiple line charts
We fixed an issue that prevented adding symbols when using a categorical scale on the horizontal axis.
Feb 5
powerpoint
We fixed a bug that caused interactive visualizations to not show up in the sidebar.

January, 2025

Jan 28
app
We improved heading elements throughout our app to provide a better structure for assistive technologies.
external-data
We fixed a bug that could cause data loss when publishing a chart with external data.
Jan 23
tables
We fixed an issue that caused the table to break when enabling the tiny chart feature on columns shown as a bars.
Jan 22
column charts
We fixed an issue that caused horizontal grid labels to stay faded back permanently after hovering over a column.
Jan 20
line charts, multiple line charts
New: Combine series with different intervals in line charts
When uploading data with gaps or values at different intervals (e.g. monthly and quarterly), you can now bridge these gaps by connecting all data points. Learn more on our blog.
annotations
We improved text visibility when editing text annotations in dark mode.
Jan 9
dot plots, range plots and arrow plots
We fixed an issue that caused incorrect formatting of date labels.
Jan 6
line charts
We fixed an issue that caused value labels for the last value to sometimes be clipped at the top.

December, 2024

Dec 18
locator maps
We fixed an issue whereby street labels were rendered above area markers.
column charts
For categorical grouped, stacked, and regular column charts with negative values, it is now possible to choose whether the category labels are shown at the zero baseline, or at the bottom of the chart.
Dec 12
bar charts and column charts
We fixed a bug that caused charts to not render properly in some circumstances when switching overlay type from range to value.
Dec 3
tables
We fixed a bug that caused inaccurate heatmap colors to be shown in some circumstances when switching from continuous to stepped color scale.
Dec 2
dot plots
We fixed a bug that crashed the editor when using dates and entering a number into the custom grid lines control.

November, 2024

Nov 26
annotations
Annotation anchor and offset settings can now be edited for multiple annotations at the same time.
Nov 21
range plots and arrow plots
We fixed a bug that caused the plus sign to appear twice in “difference” value labels when using the plus sign custom format.
Nov 18
notifications
You will now be notified by email about unread notifications in Datawrapper. Email notifications can be toggled in your profile settings.
Nov 15
visualization editor
We simplified the URL structure to use /edit consistently for all visualization types.
Nov 13
scatter plots
Text and range annotations no longer get in the way when adding labels via chart preview in the editor.
Nov 11
pdf export
We fixed a bug that prevented some theme background elements from showing up in PDF export.
archive
We fixed an issue making it impossible to type a space into the search input field in the archive.
Nov 7
column charts
We fixed a few issues that would result in value labels being incorrectly positioned in certain scenarios.
archive
We added a confirmation dialog when attempting to move published charts to trash.
Nov 6
locator maps
It is now possible to define marker visibility on desktop and mobile when uploading point markers via CSV.
stacked bars
We fixed an issue that caused misaligned grid lines and bar segments when using no row labels.
controls
We improved the focus styles for radio groups and switches to be more discernible.
Nov 4
scatter plots
We fixed a bug that would remove custom trend lines after loading scatter plots in the editor.
Nov 1
bar charts, dot plots, range plots and arrow plots
New: Annotations in all bar charts and dot, range and arrow plots
Highlight, explain, and add context to your charts with text annotations and range highlights. Learn more on our blog.

October, 2024

Oct 30
line charts
We fixed tooltip positions and the height resizing handle in charts with inverted vertical ranges, such as bump charts.
annotations
Annotation settings can now be edited for multiple annotations at the same time.
Oct 29
symbol maps
New: Arrow maps Show positive & negative data as arrows pointing in different directions with the new arrow option in symbol maps. Perfect for visualizing increases and decreases, or voter swing. Learn more on our blog.
Oct 24
archive
We added a trash bin to the archive. The trash bin keeps deleted visualizations for 30 days before they are permanently deleted.
Oct 21
visualizations
We added the possibility to format negative numbers absolutely, by wrapping the custom format token in the | character, e.g |0.0%|.
Oct 18
line charts
We fixed an issue that caused range and line annotations to extend into the margin for value labels on the right side of the chart.
scatter plots
We fixed a bug that prevented dates from being added as labels by clicking on a data point.
Oct 17
archive
We fixed an issue that caused charts not to be found in search.
Oct 16
app
The recent visualizations dropdown menu now shows the folder of each visualization.
Oct 10
custom fields
You can now use html tags <details /> and <summary /> in custom fields.
Oct 9
symbol maps
  • We fixed a bug that caused hovered symbols not to get outlined.
  • We improved the accuracy of hover interactions with the “spike” symbol type.
Oct 8
comments
You can now tag other visualizations in comments by simply typing @ and searching for the chart you want to link to. Alternatively, you can paste a chart ID or URL into a comment to automatically convert it to a mention.
line charts
We fixed a bug that caused the line background to sometimes not respect the chosen interpolation setting.
Oct 1
locator maps
We fixed a bug where markers of locator maps created via the API could not be customized in the editor under certain conditions.
locator-maps
The locator map map background now reflects data as of July 2024.
comments
Your team members now get notified if you mention them when editing an existing comment.

September, 2024

Sep 30
line and area charts
We fixed an issue that sometimes caused there to be extra whitespace below the chart when removing mobile annotation keys.
Sep 24
river
When reusing a chart from the River, the attribution URL correctly points to the original chart chart now.