Data stories and visualization
Visual essays and tools for turning data into charts and stories. 3 resources; API, key, license and embedding quoted from each site's own pages, checked Oct 23, 2026.
The Pudding
Each story asks a playful question about everyday culture and answers it with a dataset you can open and reuse yourself.
DownloadCommercial OK
Information is Beautiful
Messy, argued-over topics are turned into single charts you can take in at a glance and then check against the source spreadsheet.
DownloadCommercial: conditions
Observable
A big public gallery of live, editable charts and explainers where you can fork any cell, change the code and watch the result update instantly.
DownloadCommercial OK
Side by side
| Resource | API | Key | Data download | Commercial use | Embed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pudding A publication of interactive visual essays on culture (music, words, film, the internet), with the datasets and analysis scripts behind many stories released on GitHub. |
API unclear | — | Yes (csv, json) | Commercial use OK | Embedding unclear |
| Information is Beautiful A site of infographics and interactive charts on science, health, money and society, with many of the underlying datasets shared as Google Sheets. |
API unclear | — | Yes (google-sheets) | Commercial use with conditions | Embedding with conditions |
| Observable A platform for reactive JavaScript notebooks and data visualisations, with a large public gallery of notebooks (many by the D3 and Plot authors) and open-source tools to build static data apps from them. |
API unclear | — | Yes (source code) | Commercial use OK | Embedding unclear |