He is one of the co-creators of Observable and a key developer of D3.js,[1] a JavaScript library used to produce dynamic, interactive data visualizations for web browsers.
Bostock pursued a PhD in Computer Science as a member of the Visualization Group at Stanford University and was advised by Jeffrey Heer.
[3][4] In 2009, Bostock, Heer, and Vadim Ogievetsky developed and released Protovis, a JavaScript library for creating data visualizations.
[6] For several years, Bostock led data visualization projects at the New York Times, where he developed several notable interactive news articles.
In 2013, the influential statistician Edward Tufte predicted that he will become one of the most important people for the future of data visualization,[16] and in 2015, the New York Times' "Innovation Report" called him a "digital superstar".