How to Add Powerful Tables and Graphs to Your Substack Posts

Data Visualization for your Substack Posts.

I’m working on a new post for you where I asked nine AI power users a set of questions. While preparing it, I ran into a small but annoying obstacle: Substack’s editor doesn’t support tables. And honestly, it makes sense, tables break layouts, require special formatting, and can get messy with different screens.

But I found a great workaround: Datawrapper. It has a generous free plan, and it works beautifully with Substack.

Screenshot from Datawrapper Blog

This is how it works

Here’s the basic process:

1. Create a free account

2. Copy and paste your data from a spreadsheet into Datawrapper

3. Adjust the layout or style if needed

4. Publish

5. Copy the link and paste it directly into your Substack post

The result? A fully interactive table (not an image!) that your readers can scroll through, even sideways.

And here’s a short demo

One important note:

Once you publish a chart/table, it shows up in your Dashboard, so the link always stays connected to the real data—no need to re-upload or replace anything.

Wrapping up

If you paid close attention, you may have already spotted the answer to one of the questions from my nine AI power users. The full report is coming any day now, so stay tuned.

If you try Datawrapper and like it, let me know.

And if you’re already using it, I’d love to hear how — feel free to share your examples or use cases in the comments.

Have a great week,

Jose from Automato.