Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, on using the Datawrapper API to power trackers

You don’t have to be that good at coding to automate your charts with Datawrapper. See how the L.A. Times re-built its drought and water supplies tracker using a few Python notebooks and Datawrapper’s simple API. Sean is an assistant editor on the Data & Graphics desk at the Los Angeles Times, where he focuses on visual storytelling and environmental journalism. ======================================== 00:00 Introduction 01:18 Smarter, not harder 07:44 A chart for every occasion 09:36 Going deeper 14:18 Q: Dynamic annotations in live-updating charts? ======================================== Sean Greene gave the talk "How we’re using the Datawrapper API to power our drought and water supplies tracker" at Unwrapped 2024, a conference hosted by data visualization tool Datawrapper. Read an interview with Sean, including some of his Datawrapper visualizations: https://blog.datawrapper.de/los-angeles-times-sean-greene/ Learn more about Unwrapped: https://www.datawrapper.de/unwrapped Learn more about Datawrapper: https://www.datawrapper.de/