Your data deserves a real platform.
Xplore transforms your CSV files into an interactive and professional data explorer. Ready to go in just a few days.
Xplore transforms your CSV files into an interactive and professional data explorer. Ready to go in just a few days.
An open source framework that transforms any catalogue of structured data into an interactive exploration platform — with maps, charts, scatter plots, temporal animations and native download.
Cross any indicators against each other to reveal correlations or significant trends that can evolve over time.
Visualisation of individual trajectories for each entity. Ideal for identifying patterns, exploring causal effects, or discontinuities in evolution within a two-dimensional space.
Geographic visualisation in two or three dimensions of each indicator, with a time slider and visual comparison centred on any region of the world.
Dynamic rankings by indicator, animated over time, for each entity (country or other). Immediate comparison of relative positions, coloured by data group.
Bar chart races — the iconic Flourish feature — accessible on all global data. Direct comparisons across entities, sortable and animated, revealing gaps at a glance. Includes a slope view for simplified trend visualisation.
Evolution over decades, multi-entity, with animation and Play button. Linear or logarithmic scale, percentage normalisation available. Ability to add projections across different scenarios, observe relative change, etc.
Most visualisation tools offer limited interactivity, reduced analytical options and costly development. Xplore aggregates more than 10,000 international public indicators — one of the largest aggregates of public data in the world, continuously growing — and enables the deployment of thematic observatories with hundreds of indicators in just a few minutes, powered by the OWID grapher.
| Classic visualisation tools | Xplore × OWID Framework |
|---|---|
| × Limited interactivity | Ultra-ergonomic interactions |
| × Poorly polished visual output | Optimised display, institutional quality |
| × Basic analytical options | Full analytical options (log, %, trajectories…) |
| × Difficult or absent export | Native download: high-resolution charts + CSV data |
| × Slow and unresponsive | Fast and fluid, even on large catalogues |
| × Single visualisation type per chart | All viz types available for every indicator |
| × Static and simplistic display | Dynamic display: animated evolution, entity trajectories |
| × Expensive and time-consuming to develop | Stable and continuously developed by OWID |
Before being a framework, Xplore is a response to a concrete frustration. The Modern Societies Observatory (MSO) was born from the observation that the large institutional datasets on how societies function — available, validated, invaluable — did not have the interface they deserved.
The Modern Society Observatory is an Xplore instance deployed at the scale of a complete thematic observatory.
The OSC is not a simulated demonstration. It is a production platform, publicly accessible, used for research, teaching and science communication. It illustrates what Xplore can deploy for your organisation — with your data, on your domain.
Explore the Observatory →Explorer Creator is Xplore's self-service interface. Select indicators from 9 institutional data sources, configure your selection, and get a shareable public URL — no code, no server, no waiting.
Browse 6,000+ indicators from 9 institutional sources. Filter by theme, source or temporal coverage.
Name the explorer, combine multi-source indicators in a single basket, add your own CSV data.
An automated pipeline downloads the data, generates the charts and deploys the explorer on a public URL.
9 available sources
Upload a CSV or connect a Google Sheet — each tab becomes a category of indicators. Your data is automatically integrated and cross-referenceable with the 6,000+ public indicators in the same explorer.
Xplore is not designed for any particular type of organisation. It is designed for any organisation that has data and wants to maximise its impact.
UNDP, OECD, WHO, FAO, UNESCO, ILO, UNEP — these organisations produce world-reference data. An Xplore instance would allow them to deploy a unified interface for their entire catalogue, making their statistics truly usable by decision-makers, researchers and citizens worldwide.
Sciences Po, IDDRI, SDSN, national statistics institutes — their work deserves dissemination worthy of its rigour. Xplore gives them a platform that showcases their own data and specific indicators, without lengthy development or prohibitive licence costs.
Data journalism is booming. Yet the tools for producing interactive visualisations remain fragmented. Xplore gives newsrooms a single entry point to explore their own data, produce ready-to-use visualisations and contextualise any story with a precise and verifiable data anchor.
High schools, universities, national education systems: real-world data is the best material for teaching social sciences, geography, history and economics. Xplore makes this data usable in the classroom, without prior technical skills — native interactivity, animation, immediate comparison. For outreach and training, interactive quizzes can be integrated into the platform.
Organisations that advocate for change need data that speaks. Xplore transforms a CSV catalogue into a top-level communication and advocacy tool — visualisations that can be shared, cited, embedded in reports or campaigns.
Xplore is not reserved for institutions. Any individual wishing to tell a story with data — independent researcher, freelance journalist, newsletter author, consultant — can deploy an Xplore instance and give their data a professional visual presence.
Xplore can be deployed on any proprietary data — commercial metrics, product data, sector-specific economic indicators. A ready-to-use grapher, without heavy development. For those who want to go further, it is possible to cross their data with public data to contextualise their metrics against global economic and societal trends.
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Xplore deploys OWID-grapher, the open source infrastructure developed by Our World in Data — the engine that has driven their site to 100 million annual visits. The Observatory of Contemporary Societies uses data from UN agencies, the OECD, the World Bank, WHO, the World Inequality Lab and other recognised institutions.