Hello all,

This is the second day of our birthday-celebrating week, and I have some very cool news for you.

The Wikidata Query Service already had very nice ways to display the results, as graphs, bubble chart and map. Now we have improved this with four new types of charts: line chart, bar chart, scatter chart and area chart!

This is already deployed on the Query Service and you can try it directly by using one of the example queries : line chart, bar chart, scatter chart, area chart. Some of these views are animated, and you can play with it by moving the cursor over the chart, clicking on the legend labels to filter...

Thanks a lot to Jonas who worked very hard on this so these new features are perfectly ready for the birthday! If you have questions or find a bug, please ping one of us.

We also worked on documentation: have a look to the page presenting all the types of views that WDQS can provide. Don't hesitate to improve it or translate it in your language! Again, thank you Jonas for spending time on improving the doc.

Speaking about documentation, I need to present you this very cool guide to SPARQL and the Wikidata Query Service written by WikidataFacts. We know that understanding how SPARQL works is not easy for beginners, and every help is welcomed to improve our actual documentation :) Feel free to give your feedbacks about this work. Thanks WikidataFacts for this birthday present!

Last but not least, we have a story about queries. Jens and Cornelius wrote a blog post called "10 cool queries for Wikidata that will blow your mind. Number 7 will shock you." (also available in German) That's not on BuzzFeed (Q5003490) but on the WMDE blog and it's a nice way to introduce newcomers to queries. Thanks for sharing!

That's all for today, I let you enjoy your Sunday and I'll be back tomorrow. By the way, Sunday is a good day to try new queries: if you want to share yours, ask for help on a difficult one or give some advices, join us on Twitter with the hashtag #SundayQuery ;)