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1/ A mistake that I see often in the websites of international organizations is that they build data presentation tools as one-off projects. Right when the new site launches it works well – but as the web & their data changes it quickly gets worse. Two years later it's broken.

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2/There are two ways to avoid this: – You can hire a team of developers dedicated to maintaining the data presentation across your site. That is great, but it is expensive. – You can rely on the software that is actively maintained and improved by others.

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3/For the second option you can rely on our software if you like our tools. We at

@OurWorldInData

make all our work available as global public goods. Our software too. You find all our software open-source here:

Our World in Data

Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems - Our World in Data

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4/ We of course also always welcome if others get involved and make improvements to our software. It'd be great if in the future developers from the big well-funded international organizations would contribute to the OWID code base. We'd grow together!

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5/ But even if you can't contribute, you can always use our tools without asking. We will certainly continue doing this for many years and your tools will always be as good as those you see on

ourworldindata.org

Our World in Data

Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems

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6/ A caveat: Our tools are not well suited for the presentation of individual datasets – for that I always recommend

. Our tools work well for the presentation of large databases. It should work well for the needs of big research projects or statistical agencies.

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7/ But the main point is that I think it's a bad idea to develop visualization tools as one-offs. There are already so many data-visualization-ruins on the web. Even if yours looks good on the launch date, it will be another ruin if you don't have a plan to maintain it.

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