About

Wanna chat? Look for the red glasses.

What I’ve done with my life so far

I help others to create better data visualizations. Currently I’m doing so at Datawrapper, a data visualization tool based in Berlin, mostly by writing longer pieces for the Datawrapper Blog. I work four days a week and enjoy my free time on the fifth one and freelance a bit on the side.

Before 2021, I was called Lisa Charlotte Rost. Then I married Jonathan Muth and took his name.

Before joining Datawrapper in 2017, I created data visualizations for newsrooms like Bloomberg, Tagesspiegel, SPIEGEL, NPR (as part of a Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellowship) and ZEIT Online. In 2014, I graduated with a Master’s degree in visual communication after six years of studying in Weimar, Toronto and Oxford.

I care about the data vis community. In 2015, I took over the Data Vis Meetup Berlin. Before the pandemic, my co-host Jonas Parnow and I organized it almost monthly. Also in 2015, I tried my hands at teaching data vis at several universities in Germany. In 2018 and as part of my job at Datawrapper, I started organizing the Data Vis Book Club. It’s a global & digital book club that focuses on Data Vis books from authors like Cairo, Tufte, Munzner and Cole-Nussbaumer. (Have a look at the books we’ve read so far.)

Get in touch

→ lisacharlottemuth@gmail.com

The best address for inquries. I might not respond quickly, but I will respond eventually.

→ @lisacmuth on X/Twitter

If you have just a quick note or questions and want to shorten the wire, write me a Direct Message on X/Twitter. You can do so even if you I don’t follow you.

→ Lunch

I live in Berlin. If you do so, too, or are in town for a visit, let’s do lunch! Datawrapper is based in Prenzlauer Berg (close to Helmholtzplatz) with lots of lunch options around. I’m happy to chat over some good food.

Nice things others have said about my work

"Seeing a deep dive by Lisa, about pretty much anything, is like waking up on Christmas morning (or any other exciting-for-you holiday)!"

"If you *ever* make charts as part of your job (or hobby), and you don't follow Lisa and everything she writes, you're sabotaging yourself."

"Sifting quickly through @infobeautyaward's shortlist: the highlight of the year for me is hands down the @Datawrapper's blog and Lisa's awesome writings."

"Everyone doing dataviz should be reading this blog."

"I swear, Lisa is doing the most clear and accessible writing about data vis principles today."

"Very few are writing as consistently, authoritatively and thoughtfully about what makes good data-viz as Lisa is on the Datawrapper Blog."

"One of the most interesting writers about data vis is Lisa Rost. I've always thought she's an extremely thoughtful observer of the field. [...] She asks the question 'Why'. 'Why' in a practical, in a human sense."