Mike Bostock

Please find my recent work on Observable.

Past Work

April 28, 2017A Better Way to Code

December 9, 2016Command-Line Cartography

March 9, 2016What Makes Software Good?

December 28, 2015Introducing d3-scale

December 3, 2015Introducing d3-shape

November 23, 2015Let’s Make a (D3) Plugin

December 27, 2014Mapping Every Path to the N.F.L. Playoffs

December 20, 2014How Each Team Can Make the N.F.L. Playoffs

November 5, 2014The Most Detailed Maps You’ll See From the Midterm Elections

November 3, 2014How To Scroll

September 19, 2014‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Is All but Gone From New York

July 26, 2014Mapping the Spread of Drought Across the U.S.

June 26, 2014Visualizing Algorithms

June 15, 2014Three Little Circles

May 22, 2014Is It Better to Rent or Buy?

May 6, 2014Let’s Make a Bubble Map

April 22, 2014Who Will Win The Senate?

March 7, 2014Let’s Make a Block

Feburary 14, 2014Front Row to Fashion Week

February 14, 2014Sochi 2014: Interactive Stories

January 11, 2014Taking the Battle to the States

November 30, 2013Tracing the History of N.C.A.A. Conferences

November 5, 2013Let’s Make a Bar Chart

October 27, 2013A Game of Shark and Minnow

October 14, 2013The Russia Left Behind

September 29, 2013For Eli Manning, 150 Games and Counting

September 25, 2013Oracle’s Path to Victory

September 23, 2013State-by-State Premiums Under the Health Care Law

September 6, 2013Constellations of Directors and Their Stars

September 2, 2013How To Infer Topology

August 2, 2013For Yankees, Little Bang for Their Buck

June 9, 2013For Example

May 25, 2013Across U.S. Companies, Tax Rates Vary Greatly

April 26, 2013How Selections Work

April 25, 2013N.F.L. Draft: How Good Are Teams at Picking the Best?

April 8, 2013China Still Dominates, but Some Manufacturers Look Elsewhere

March 2, 2013Increased Border Enforcement, With Varying Results

February 23, 2013Why Use Make

February 20, 2013Among the Oscar Contenders, a Host of Connections

January 3, 2013A Chicago Divided by Killings

December 30, 2012Let’s Make a Map

November 29, 2012How the Tax Burden Has Changed

November 11, 2012Counties Blue and Red, Moving Right and Left

November 7, 2012How Obama Won Re-election

November 2, 2012512 Paths to the White House

October 30, 2012Wind Speeds Along Hurricane Sandy’s Path

October 24, 2012Working with Transitions

October 15, 2012Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted

September 18, 2012A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus’ Wife

September 14, 2012How the Chicago Public School District Compares

September 6, 2012At the National Conventions, the Words They Used

September 4, 2012At the Democratic Convention, the Words Being Used

August 28, 2012At the Republican Convention, the Words Being Used

August 24, 2012Drought during Month

August 24, 2012Drought Extends, Crops Wither

August 10, 2012Drought and Deluge in the Lower 48

June 21, 2012Fisheye Distortion

June 19, 2012D3 + Leaflet

June 10, 2012Zoomable Treemaps

June 1, 2012Line Simplification

May 22, 2012Sankey Diagrams

May 16, 2012Object Constancy

April 8, 2012Nested Selections

March 18, 2012Hive Plots

March 13, 2012The Wealth & Health of Nations

February 27, 2012Towards Reusable Charts

February 5, 2012Thinking with Joins

January 21, 2012Will It Shuffle?

January 19, 2012Path Transitions

January 14, 2012Fisher–Yates Shuffle

January 12, 2012Les Misérables Co-occurrence

January 9, 2012Uber Rides by Neighborhood

#Examples

In addition to the graphics and articles listed above, I have posted almost a thousand examples on bl.ocks.org/mbostock. Peruse them to learn D3 or for visual inspiration.

#Talks

Occasionally I stand in front of a room of people and, by flapping my lips or waving my arms, attempt to communicate something of interest. These awkward moments are sometimes captured as moving images and sound for future study.

Q&A - September 8, 2015Reddit: AMA

Video - September 8, 2014FOSS4G: The Toolmaker’s Guide

Video - June 11, 2014Eyeo: Visualizing Algorithms

Video - April 24, 2014OpenVis: Design is a Search Problem

Video - June 6, 2013Eyeo: For Example

Slides & Video - May 2, 2012Time Series Visualization with Cubism.js

Slides - March 5, 2012VIZBI: D3 Workshop

Slides & Video - November 16, 2011W3C Conf: Visualizing Data with Web Standards

Slides - October 18, 2011SVG Open: D3 Keynote

Slides & Video - September 21, 2011Trulia Meetup: Use the Force!

#Publications

As part of my PhD studies at the Stanford Vis Group, I published several papers with Jeffrey Heer.

Code as Cartography
The Cartographic Journal, May 2013

D3: Data-Driven Documents
IEEE InfoVis 2011

Declarative Language Design for Interactive Visualization
IEEE InfoVis 2010

Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design
ACM CHI 2010, best paper nominee

Protovis: A Graphical Toolkit for Visualization
IEEE InfoVis 2009

#Projects

Most of my recent projects are listed on my GitHub profile. If you want help using any of my libraries, please post questions to Stack Overflow with the appropriate tag (or the d3-js group) and I will endeavor to answer them.

D3.js
A JavaScript library for visualizing data and manipulating the document object model.

TopoJSON
An extension of GeoJSON that encodes topology.

Shapefile
A streaming parser for the ESRI Shapefile spatial data format.

bl.ocks.org
A viewer for sharing interactive examples via GitHub Gist. See also Gistup.

U.S. Atlas
Roll your own TopoJSON from the National Atlas one million-scale dataset.

Cubism.js
A JavaScript library for time series visualization. Built on D3.

Cube
A system for time series data collection and analysis. Built on MongoDB.

Crossfilter
A JavaScript library for fast multi-dimensional filtering and grouping of data.

Stack.js
A presentation library with intuitive, scroll-based navigation.

Queue.js
Yet another abstraction for asynchronous JavaScript. 554 bytes!

Polymaps
A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps.

Protovis
A JavaScript library for visualization; superseded by D3.

Dependency Tree
A dependency visualization using hierarchical edge bundling.

Polly-B-Gone
A 3D physics platform game.