Datawrapper - What it is and how it works

Brief Presentation from Global Editors Network News Summit 2013 in Paris. Datawrapper is this years winner of the "Startup for News" Contest.

1. Datawrapper: What, Why and How...
Datawrapper
An open source tool helping anyone
to create simple, correct and
embeddable charts in minutes.
Datawrapper:
Correct, embeddable charts
Mirko Lorenz, Project Manager
GEN News Summit//Paris//June 2013

2. When we started this,
we wanted to close a gap...

3. D3.JS and other visualization libraries are
great, but hard to use for journalists...
So many options
to tell stories with data.

4. But to use these
you need to know
how to code...

5. Datawrapper enables
journalists to create
correct charts
in four quick steps.

14. Why Datawrapper is different:
- Simple, correct, embeddable charts
- Many options per chart type
- Usable for print workflows
- Customizable
- Open Source

17. Timeline:
- Funding from ABZV in 2011
- Public Beta January 2012
- First million chart views in six months
- Version 1.0 in November 2012
- Version 2.0 in August 2013

18. Coming up - three versions of the tool:
- Datawrapper Public
- Datawrapper Community
- Datawrapper Pro

19. www.datawrapper.de
Thank you!
Gregor Aisch Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Journalism++Anne-Lise Bouyer, Journalism++
Pierre Bellon, Journalism++Edouard Richard, Journalism++ Pierre Romera, Journalism++