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WikiProject Wikipedia Data Visualization

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WikiProject Data Visualization is a WikiProject about data graphics on Wikipedia.

Goals

Welcome to the WikiProject Data Visualization. The goals of the project are to create, embed, improve and update relevant datagraphics across the English Wikipedia.

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Things to do

Examples

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  Chart showing greenhouse gas emissions per person, by country, for countries with the most total emissions, with the area of each column showing total emissions
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  Rough timelines of domestication for 11 animal species
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  Maternal mortality rates per 100,000 births. A template to create U.S. choropleth maps. See examples and instructions.
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  Halogenated gas concentrations 1978-present
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  Estimated number of deaths from malaria per 100,000 people per country
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  Global number of years of potential life lost, by pathogen and infectious syndrome, 2019
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  An interactive SVG (click to use) – Comparison of male and female life expectancy at birth by country

Image frame

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{{#chart:Global wind power production.chart}}

Global wind power production (example of Chart extension use)

OWID slider. Interactive graphics

Template:Owidslider. For Our World in Data graphics.

File:Meat-supply-per-person,World,2022.svg

Meat supply per person

Resources

• Commons:Free media resources/Datagraphics
• c:Category:Data graphics, e.g. many charts and maps can be found in c:Category:Our World in Data
• Wikipedia:Graphs and charts
• Many studies contain data graphics, see c:Commons:Files from studies for information on how to find and upload them
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Conventions
• Wikimedia Commons already has many data graphics – see c:Category:Data graphics
• PubMed allows exporting results as csv with the "Download CSV" button in the top right for number of studies per year for the query.
• Free tools to create data graphics with (e.g. from csv files) include kst, Gnuplot, LabPlot, (add more here)
• Wikipedia:Timeline
• c:User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG, paste or enter your data into the spreadsheet which can then generate a column of XML code which you can save as an ".svg" file

Request datagraphics

Enter the subject of the requested datagraphic:

Participants

Sign up if you're interested. To add yourself to the list of project participants, go to the Category:WikiProject Data Visualization participants page, and add your username there. Also, use the userbox below to let others know of the project. The userbox will also add your username to the category (no need to add your username to the list):

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See also

• Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Resources/Charts
• WikiProjectMed:OWID
• phab:T336556 Code issue "All Graphs broken on Wikimedia wikis (due to security issue T336556)" – see Category:Pages with disabled graphs and phab:T396269 (many graphs still broken)
• Template:Owidslider (Needs consensus before it can be activated, in ongoing development as of 2025)

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• WikiProject Statistics