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Staff picks

Using Vega Lite to explore Chemistry

Zeke Nierenberg

How can visualization help us learn complex, difficult subjects like chemistry? Find out in this thoughtful reflection on teaching, learning, and exploring with Vega-Lite.

Anti-Trans Legislation Tracker

Trans rights are under attack all across the USA. Learn about the context and status of proposed anti-trans laws, and how to take action against them, in this explainer.

A FEMINIST GLANCE AT FILMS

An interactive investigation into gender representation in film, complete with a behind-the-scenes video report on the authors' process.

Featured creators

Justin Gosses

JavaScript | Python | Data Visualization | Web Development | Geology | Space | Analytics | IoT | Learn, Build Stuff, and Figure Things Out

Carmen Torrecillas

Frontend & data visualizer at Civio, a non-profit organization specialized in data and investigative journalism and access to information. I came from the architecture field, but #dataviz has always been my passion and has finally trapped me here :)

Irene de la Torre

@irenedelatorre

Data visualization designer. Now Visualization Lead at UCB. Before at BBC News & the Senseable City Lab. I like making dots move in the screen

Alex Garcia

Software engineer, available for freelance work! • he/him/his

Data Visualization for Developers

Examples, blog posts, and demos on how developers can use dataviz for their work.

Coronavirus

A selection of notebooks related to COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2.

Women's History

Winners of our Women's History DataViz Contest and other notebooks exploring women's struggles & achievements throughout history.

Black History

Winners of our Black History DataViz Contest and other notebooks exploring Black history.

Equality

Observable is committed to helping and contributing to social justice and equality. We will enable data exploration for these efforts. We value prioritizing marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort.

Generative art

Brand new and recreated vintage art, made with code and imagination.

WebGL

Harness the raw power of the GPU using WebGL, THREE.js and regl.

Visualization

Explore and explain patterns in quantitative data using D3 and Vega.