🆚 D3.js vs. Observable
- 📈 D3.js is much more popular than Observable.
- 🌍 D3.js is more popular in all countries.
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About
D3.js is an open-source, low-level 
JavaScript toolbox for data visualization.
It supports loading data from CSV, 
JSON, and GeoJSON formats, provides scale functions for mapping data values to visual properties, includes layouts such as force-directed graphs, treemaps, and packed circles, and offers transitions, animations, and interaction tools like dragging, zooming, and panning.
Observable is a collaborative web-based platform for creating interactive data visualizations, dashboards, and analytical notebooks.
It uses reactive notebooks that combine JavaScript, SQL, 
HTML, 
Markdown, and live data sources, supports real-time collaborative editing and version history, offers embeddable visualizations and connections to databases such as MySQL, 
PostgreSQL, and 
SQLite, and includes built-in support for 
D3.js.
Headquarters
Pricing
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Spain in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Charting category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google Colab🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,580,056 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.