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Staff picks

Moon Grid (paper)

Forrest Oliphant

Visualize the phases of the moon as seen from anywhere in the world, then print it as a paper-cut template!

JavaScript Data Wrangling

Michael FreemaninInteractive Info Vis

If you want to visualize data on the web, you need to be able to interact with your data using JavaScript. Data manipulation can (and should) happen in JavaScript!

Top 10 Community Embedded Data Visualizations of 2020

Wayne SuttoninObservable

Since we launched our new Embedding Tool in October, our community has created and shared thousands of embeds that have been seen around the world. Here's a list of the Top 10 Embeds of 2020.

Featured creators

Aaron Williams

data equity + viz + analysis ✊🏿 senior viz engineer @netflix ✊🏿 former investigative data reporter @washingtonpost ⚡advisory board @OpenNews

Claudio Esperança

Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where I teach and research Computer Graphics and Visualization.

Di

Design Systems Lead (Engineering). Author of Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems. Creator of Typey Type for Stenographers.

Olivia Vane

Data visualisation design｜cultural heritage Research software engineer @britishlibrary @LivingwMachines PhD @RCA

Coronavirus

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

Elections

A selection of election-related data visualizations created by our community, the Observable Journalism Network, and our team. Explore maps, voter wait times, paths to victory, and more.

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.