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Datawrapper

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Velocity5.0

Tool for creating interactive charts, maps and tables for newsrooms and publishers

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Datawrapper ships one small fix at a time, each named for the chart it touches

data-visualizationmapsaccessibilityexportpolish
◆Current state
Datawrapper's changelog is a stream of single-item entries titled by date and chart type, most of them one sentence long. The recent run is almost entirely repair work across locator maps, choropleth and symbol maps, line charts and tables — a duplicated area marker in globe projection, a colour picker that failed for single lines with custom colours, region suggestions that now fill the data table cell immediately. The newest entry fixes SVG export so labels with strokes no longer carry an extra text layer when opened in Illustrator.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern is a mature product being polished at the edges where its output meets other tools: the export path into Illustrator, screen readers announcing table search results, warnings when natural breaks fall outside a custom range. Genuinely new capability is rare and small when it appears, such as patterns becoming usable with range highlights. Anyone reading this feed for direction will find craft rather than strategy, which is consistent with a tool whose value is that charts behave predictably.
◆Prediction
Expect the same cadence of narrow fixes across the map and chart types, with the next non-fix entry most likely another styling option extended to a chart type that did not have it.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    SVG export drops the extra text layer behind stroked labels

    SVG export no longer places an extra text layer behind stroked labels when the file is opened in Illustrator. A cleanup on the handoff path to design tools, invisible to anyone who does not edit exports.

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  2. 9d ago

    Area markers no longer render twice in globe projection

    Area markers stop rendering twice in globe projection on locator maps. A rendering fix confined to one projection.

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  3. 21d ago

    Patterns can now be used with range highlights

    Patterns can now be combined with range highlights. One of the few entries in this run that adds an option rather than repairing one, extending a styling choice to a context that lacked it.

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  4. 23d ago

    Color picker fixed for single lines with custom colors

    The colour picker works again for single lines with custom colours. A narrow regression fix in the line chart editor.

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  5. 27d ago

    Region suggestions fill the data table cell immediately

    Region suggestions now fill the data table cell immediately on choropleth and symbol maps. An input-latency fix in the map data entry flow.

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  6. 29d ago

    Warning when natural breaks fall outside the custom range

    A warning appears when natural breaks fall outside the custom range on maps and tables. A guard against a silently wrong colour scale rather than a change in what can be built.

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