Mike Bostock

@ocks.org

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Visualization toolmaker. Founder of Observable. Creator of D3. Former NYT Graphics. Pronounced BOSS-tock.

A time-series chart shows daily downloads of Observable Plot from npm; downloads have grown from a couple thousand per day in October 2022 to about 15,000 per day in September 2025 (7-day moving average); a tooltip shows 20,229 downloads on September 10, 2025.
A screenshot of the macOS file info window, showing a file that will open with Observable Desktop by default.
A screenshot of querying the most frequent words in the works of Shakespeare, with a simple horizontal bar chart below.
A screenshot of Observable Desktop showing a JavaScript cell importing the geoviz library, followed by a JavaScript cell rendering a world map.