Friday Update - June 18th, 2021

Last week was great. The new website is now working and users are starting to flow in. We now have 268 users! Thanks to everybody for signing up. Looking forward to pumping these numbers up.

New major features: upload datasets and create charts

Upload data

We are launching today a new major feature. Users can now upload their own datasets and create new charts. Beware: This is still in the testing phase and is almost 95% functional, but you may find some bugs. Please let us know if that happens!

Access the admin by clicking here

In the admin, you can upload CSV files into your Repositories (soon you will be able to create new repos). The data needs to have the following structure (we will make this more flexible in the future):

First column should be country. You can put anything there, but if you put countries they can be used in the maps engine.
Second column should be year, on the format YYYY-MM-DD. Both country and year are mandatory and the pair should not be repeated.
Then one column for each variable.

Once you upload the CSV file you can select the target repository, the name of the dataset and pair each variable from the file to a variable name in the Dataset.

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Create charts

With the data uploaded you can create a chart, both from your data and from public repositories that you are watching (to watch a Repo go back to the Repositories lists and click the Watch button).

There are dozens of options. We will soon create a comprehensive guide on how to create charts. In the charts editor, you can:

Pick from multiple chart types (Lines, scatter, stacked bars, and more). More chart types will be available soon.
[Basic] Select the repository of the chart.
[Basic] Pick variables from your repos or those you watch.
[Data tab] Pick which information will be shown by default.
[Text] Pick the title, slug, and footer.
[Customize] Select colors, axes, transformations, and more.
Save the chart as a draft or publish it! Once it's published or saved, you will find it on the charts list.

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We will be working on stabilizing the charts and datasets admin and on creating the API to upload data, directly create or update datasets from R, Python or whatever you like. Hopefully, this will be ready next week.