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Jason Forrest, data visualization designer and Editor-in-Chief of Nightingale, shares his thoughts on creating empathetic visualizations that inspire conversations.

Jason Forrest: all data visualization is a dialogue

Ben Welsh, award winning data journalist and news applications editor at Reuters, shares how he’s building automated data pipelines to help journalists put their energy where it matters most.

Ben Welsh nerds out about building better data pipelines for data journalism

Developer Ryan Murphy shares a behind the scenes look into the motivation for, implementation of, and insights from his popular ActBlue Ticker Tracker dashboard.

Behind the scenes of the ActBlue Ticker Tracker with Ryan Murphy

Jon Froehlich, Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Washington, uses Observable to open his teaching environment, providing a collaborative and accessible learning experience for fourth-year undergrads. 

An open approach to data visualization education at the University of Washington

The winner of our spring Student Data Jam is Data Dynamically, from the University of North Carolina, Asheville. This team explored college graduation rates at the state and national level, providing a thorough data analysis and striking hero visualization. They were awarded extra points for storytelling; providing a rich context for their conclusions and future exploration.

Data Dynamically digs into graduation rates to rise to the top of the Student Data Jam

Data visualization teachers in UC Berkeley’s Master of Information and Data Science online program have used an Observable workspace to manage multiple sections of an information visualization course for over 600 students since 2020. We caught up with the course designer and lead teacher, Andy Reagan, and instructor Mak Ahmad to learn how they use Observable to teach across semesters.

UC Berkeley instructors use Observable to teach data visualization at scale

When Tanner Linsley needed a JavaScript library for building visualizations of various data models in his enterprise SEO monitoring software, his tool of choice was Observable Plot.

How open-source pro Tanner Linsley uses Observable Plot for speed + “intuitive grammar of graphics”

Independent data consultant Tanya Shapiro was introduced to the world of data visualization from the online R community. This year, in her push to create more interactive data visualization, she's moved into the JavaScript world.

Data consultant from the R world uses JavaScript to “bring viz to life”

Ambassador and Observable power-user Mark McClure has been teaching mathematics at UNC Asheville since 1997. As his teaching has grown to include subjects like data visualization, so have the techniques he uses to teach using Observable.

Observable: Showing math students the concepts, and the code behind them

The first discussion in our Data Educator Stories is a chat with Philip Bogden, Observable Ambassador and computer science professor at Northeastern University. He’s currently using Observable in several graduate-level data science courses, which he says helps data science students discover new insights by using JavaScript to create interactive dataviz.

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