Observable Announces Free Tier of Service for Data Practitioners

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25, 2022 — Observable has announced the introduction of free team accounts for data analysts, data scientists, developers, engineers and key decision makers, allowing them to learn from and build on each other’s work openly and publicly.

The announcement follows Observable’s Series B funding round of $35.6 million earlier this year.

“The democratization of data work and access to tools is crucial to help everyone make sense of the world with data,” said Melody Meckfessel, co-founder and CEO of Observable. “By offering Free Teams, data practitioners at every experience level can create, collaborate and gain insights from their data with the help of Observable’s amazing community of data experts. There are no limits to what’s possible for open, easy data collaboration.”

With Free Teams, Everyone Benefits

Observable’s new free team offering opens up easy collaboration using the largest collection of industry-leading, public data work occurring in Observable to the platform’s engaged community of more than five million data experts and explorers engaged.

Users can create a Free Team with the click of a button and invite as many community members as they want. The notebooks are live and public so collaborators can see updates in real time, which makes it easier and faster to work together on data analysis and insights – meetings, sharing, collaborating. Users can upgrade to the paid version of Teams when they want to work with their private data securely in a private workspace. Free Teams can access nearly 700,000 custom notebooks, templates, charts, graphs and educational resources.

Let Your Insights Evolve with Observable

From the creators of D3, Observable is a collaborative canvas where teams explore, analyze, visualize and share data. From the simple, yet expressive Observable Plot charting tool to thousands of pre-populated templates, data teams can simply fork, import their own data and customize analytics dashboards in just a few minutes. Designed to drive better, faster decision making through actionable insights, Observable allows teams to:

• Use data from anywhere
• Inspect, transform & visualize data as a team
• Share insights as reports, dashboards and data apps
• Export and embed visualizations into other tools and websites with the click of a button
• Learn from and be inspired by the largest online library of visualizations

About Observable

Observable is the collaborative data canvas built for, and powered by community. The company was co-founded by Mike Bostock, D3.js creator, and Melody Meckfessel, former VP of Engineering at Google. Observable helps teams at more than 300 organizations such as Stitch Fix, Trase, The Washington Post and MIT make better business decisions using data.

Source: Observable