Erkka Rautio, Finnish Parliament, on two tricks for Datawrapper tables

Описание: Dates in tables can be tricky if you want to let readers both search by date and reorder rows in chronological order. Luckily, there’s a “secret workaround” for this problem. Bar charts in table columns are also convenient – but how do you set a uniform range in multiple columns with live-updating data? In Erkka Rautio's talk, he shows how he tackled these challenges using Datawrapper’s features and API.

Erkka is an information specialist at the Library of the Finnish Parliament. As such, his bread and butter is to (visually) communicate parliamentary affairs to the larger public. After three years of experience with Datawrapper, he has gotten familiar with its versatile powers.

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00:00 Introduction
01:04 Example: Absences of MPs
03:06 The report and statistics view
04:45 Problem 1: Searching for dates in tables
05:41 Problem 2: Uniform bar chart range?
06:13 Solution 1: Adding @-signs to dates
09:08 Solution 2: Define the bar length with the API
13:05 Summary

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Erkka Rautio gave the talk "Customizing tables: sort and search by dates and uniform bar range" at Unwrapped 2024, a conference hosted by data visualization tool Datawrapper.

Read an interview with Erkka, including some of their Datawrapper visualizations:
https://blog.datawrapper.de/finnish-p...

Learn more about Unwrapped:
https://www.datawrapper.de/unwrapped

Learn more about Datawrapper:
https://www.datawrapper.de/