"To understand something, write about it," they say. I'm curious. So I started writing: first on my personal blog, mostly about data vis when I got into the field around 2014. There was so much to learn! Since November 2017, I get paid by Datawrapper to do just that: Figuring things out, and taking you all on a tour with me:
Hi! My name is Lisa
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I write, create, talk & host events about data vis, currently for Datawrapper in Berlin.
Here's what I've worked on.

How to get started with data visualization

How to choose an interpolation for your color scale

In defense of simple charts

A data vis crossword puzzle!

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations

One Chart, Nine Tools – Revisited

How I Feel When I Learn To Code

Map vs. Territory

Meaning + Beauty in Data Vis and Data Art
Selected projects
Before delving into data vis, I studied print design for six years. Here you can find some of these older works, but also data visualizations I've created for newsrooms, in my free time, and, most recently, for the Datawrapper blog:

Datawrapper visualizations I created in 2025 (so far)

We’re waiting longer than ever for our favorite TV shows to return

The most common baby names are far less common these days

Years, months, days, and hours — in one chart

Which Cities Are On Similar Latitudes?

Back then, everything was worse.

My Google Search History – visualized

Data Vis in my Master's Thesis

Documentation of my internship at Bloomberg Businessweek
Organized events
I started going to conferences and meetups about data visualization as soon as I had the epiphany that "Whoa, this is a real field, and people actually do this for a living!" At some point, I wanted to bring data vis enthusiasts together myself – to meet them, but to also give back to a community that had given me so much. So far, I’ve organized three things:

Unwrapped, a Datawrapper conference

Data Vis Book Club

Data Vis Meetup Berlin
Selected talks
Talks let me combine images (slides) and text (my speech) in a more tension-building, direct way than blog posts. I taught data vis at different universites and have given general data vis workshops over the years – but here you can find the talks I used as an excuse to research a completely new question:

Why We Don't Believe In Facts, And How To Fix That

Why do we visualize data?

A Data Point Walks Into a Bar

Map Poetry

Making Election Maps Popular Again

Less News, More Context
About me
Lisa Charlotte Muth is a Berlin-based writer for the data visualization tool Datawrapper. Before that, she studied graphic design for six years and created data visualizations for newsrooms like Tagesspiegel, Bloomberg, SPIEGEL, ZEIT Online, and NPR as an OpenNews Fellow. She co-hosted the Berlin Data Vis meetup, started the global, digital Data Vis Book Club, writes a handbook, and tries to live a good life.