AI is reshaping how we work with data. But, as Ben Welsh (Data Editor, Reuters) shared in our December webinar, AI won’t replace the creativity behind great graphics anytime soon.

Watch the recording for more insights from top data journalists: buff.ly/Y8ZrG0a

Happy 2026 from the Observable team!

With the start of the new year, we're reminded that time flies and there's always a need to understand how things change as it does. Learn about 8 charts that clarify patterns, reveal anomalies, and help you track performance with time series data👇

🥧 We're not saying you're sick of pie (charts) these days, but there are other appetizing ways to visualize parts of a whole. In Observable Canvases, it's just a few clicks to advanced, interactive charts like treemaps, circle packing charts, and more: buff.ly/pI8mYII

Before diving headfirst into a new dataset, Jared Whalen (The Pudding) reminds us to first ask why the data exists, & how it’s already been used.

Catch more expert insights from top data journalists in our recent “Storytelling with Graphics” webinar 👉 buff.ly/6PmuD06

In last week's Storytelling with Graphics webinar, we went behind the scenes with leading data journalists to learn how they transform messy datasets into informative and impactful stories. Catch the full discussion here: buff.ly/6PmuD06

In our recent webinar, Data Visualization Developer Kelsey Nanan shared how low-code tools speed up testing, design, and iteration. See how Observable Canvases help analysts get from big databases to fast, interactive charts in just a few clicks: buff.ly/HkV5RVR

Want to show how your data adds up? 📊 Meet 6 chart types for visualizing parts of a whole — from treemaps to streamgraphs — plus tips on when each may be a good fit for your data. Learn how you can create the featured charts & many more in Observable Canvases, each in under a minute: buff.ly/RtIRpxT

It's now even easier to build on-brand data visualizations in Observable Canvases. 🎨 With our new data-driven colors, you can quickly define custom color scales based on categories in your data. Learn how Observable helps you create fast, consistently branded charts: buff.ly/YCkFGLB

🕸️ For our final Observa-bite of the month we are adding radar charts (aka spider charts) to Observable Canvases. Check out radar charts, and all of our advanced chart types, available in canvases: buff.ly/l76pX6m

Observable’s built-in charts are designed by top data visualization developers, interactive by default, & fast — even with big data. We’ve expanded our suite of advanced types to include Sankeys, beeswarms, arc maps & more. Meet our state-of-the-art data visualizations 👉 buff.ly/eZYyQYd

Table nodes in Observable Canvases are powerful for fast, UI-based data wrangling. In addition to interactive filtering and column management, you can now derive new columns, convert data types, and limit rows — all in the same place. Learn more: buff.ly/l76pX6m

🪄 Chart theming is here! Now, in Observable Canvases, you can apply custom color palettes and fonts to create dashboards that are automatically on-brand. Get started with dashboards and chart theming here: buff.ly/I1nu82R

🐝 Beeswarm charts are a powerful way to explore quantitative variable distributions, and a useful alternative to more aggregated options like histograms & box plots. Meet our expanding library of state-of-the-art, interactive charts in Observable Canvases: buff.ly/SLQY7SD

Slow-loading tables and overworked browsers can bog down analysis when you're exploring large datasets. In our new post, we explain how table virtualization in Observable Canvas keeps data work fast and fluid — even with big data, and when viewing complex, branching analyses: buff.ly/7cfqsQA

Treemaps help you go beyond donut charts and stacked bars to visualize parts of a whole for hierarchical data. Learn how canvases put state-of-the-art, interactive charts like treemaps, Sankey diagrams, beeswarms, bump charts, and more at your fingertips: buff.ly/DaE8zgO

Sankey diagrams make it easy to see how quantities flow through a system, but they're tough to build from scratch.

In Observable Canvases, you can create Sankey diagrams (plus arc maps, beeswarms, & more) in minutes — all optimized for clarity and performance: buff.ly/gsd0cpg

Bump charts show how rankings shift over time, and are a great option when order matters more than absolute values. In Observable Canvases, you can now build & share responsive bump charts with just a few clicks. See what's new in our summer release: buff.ly/ZDxrAvt

For one of the most common operations in all of data wrangling, implementing UI-based data joins is anything but straightforward. Software engineer Tony Sullivan shares some unexpected challenges behind joins and how we handle them in Observable Canvases: buff.ly/4FRU9C9