Observable is redefining how businesses use data to discover and answer their biggest questions by giving them the tools to more efficiently create custom data apps in any language or library.
Purpose-built for data apps
Effective presentation of data is critical for deep insights, nuanced understanding, and informed decision making. But most data teams don’t have the resources, time, or expertise required to stand up the types of data apps that will truly make an impact on their business. As a result, they have to choose between investing expensive engineering hours in building and maintaining custom data apps or relying on legacy BI tools that are uncustomizable and only provide shallow insights.
Observable solves this problem for businesses by consolidating the workflow required to take data from development to deploy into one platform. This means that organizations can build bespoke data apps that were previously deemed too costly or complex to develop and maintain.
From the creators of D3, Observable makes it easy for developers to seamlessly build and deploy rich, nuanced dashboards. Since we manage hosting and sharing, data teams can take advantage of DevOps best practices — without changing their current workflows.
Global community of data practitioners
When you use Observable, you join a global community of hundreds of thousands of data teams and developers. Gain access to templates and examples you can build from, learn from others, and receive support in our community Slack and forum.
Observable is an end-to-end solution, purpose-built to help developers build and host effective, fast data apps.
Our team
We’re visualization enthusiasts. We’re chart connoisseurs. We’re open source developers. We’re map geeks, spreadsheet lovers, and color palette fiends.
We love helping people understand the world better and we want you to join us in helping the world make sense of data.
If you want to get a feel for what it’s like to work at Observable, check out some of our public notes about our company culture and equality work.
Company leadership
Mike Bostock
Julio Avalos
Board members
Investors
Observable is backed by Sequoia, Menlo Ventures and Acrew Capital.
Jobs
We are looking for talented teammates who are compassionate about helping more people explore, analyze, and explain data.