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The end-to-end solution for developers who want to build and host dashboards that don’t suck.
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Joined September 2017
Hello, world! 🎉 Announcing Observable notebooks: a better way to code, discover, and communicate.
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Today we’re launching a bold new vision: an open-source static site generator — Observable Framework — for creating fast, beautiful data apps you can host anywhere. Use JavaScript for interactive graphics with Python, R, or any language for data analysis.
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We're excited to announce Observable Plot, a new open-source library for faster and easier data exploration on the web! 📈🚀. Plot's concise API and thoughtful defaults are designed for a more joyful visualization process, try out the beta and let us know!.
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🔍 Now you can query PostgreSQL, MySQL, and BigQuery directly from your Observable notebooks. 📈
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Reactivity is awesome, intimidating, and confusing. It’s fundamental to Observable but we haven’t made it clear or obvious. We’re part notebook, part spreadsheet, and we should help people see that. Like, I mean, SEE it. So we’re launching Visual Dataflow:
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We are so excited to announce Plot Cheatsheets - an interactive overview with printable PDFs to explore each of the foundational concepts of the Observable Plot library including: Marks, Scales, Transforms, Layout & Colors.
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Writing data wrangling code can be challenging, so we built the Data Wrangler to help compose and preview transformations using the amazing Arquero package (by @uwdata // @jeffrey_heer). Check it out!
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It’s here! 🎉 Announcing Observable for Teams: The magic notebook for teams to think, together. Unlimited private notebooks, multiplayer editing, comments and shared secrets.
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🗳 Nobody knows what the outcome of the presidential election will be — but with a radial dendrogram you can try to visualize all the possibilities at once: .👀 #dataviz #Election2020 #DataVisualization
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We are bringing data science from the command line to the web.
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Working with data that changes over time is tough. Our team created this amazing resource & is hosting a webinar on 10/21 to discuss the topic. 🕰
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Observable may be the future of programming, but starting today we also support the past. ✨Announcing History!✨. Browse old versions of notebooks; tweak to explore alternative timelines; then revert, fork or merge.
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In our new example dashboard, we explore conditions of 91k+ U.S. dams. Features maps made w/ charts built w/ Observable Plot, and an R data loader to access & wrangle data on the back-end. 👉 See the dashboard & code:
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📎 Attach files to your Observable notebooks! 📎. JSON, CSV, PNG, SHP… you name it. Files are fetch-able, import-able, stream-able, diff-able, suggest-able, and more.
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🤔 Are you comfortable doing data science in #Python, but want to leverage the interactive nature of #JavaScript? . 👉 Check out our newest tutorial on learning JavaScript for python users and learn JavaScript basics in no time here:
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In a new Observable Framework dashboard, @smplrspace CTO @tibotiber combines a 3D indoor CO2 heatmap with interactive charts made with Observable Plot. See it live: and start building with Observable today:
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🎉 We're excited to launch real-time collaboration on Observable! . Invite up to 4 other people to co-edit 🎮 real-time with you! 🤜 🤛 . Learn more about Collaborating in Observable - 💞. Looking forward to working with you! 💃 .#dataviz.
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Observable: The User Manual. We’ve (but let’s be serious, mostly Mike has) written a mountain of reference material over the past year that covers how to effectively realize the notebooks of your dreams. Here it is on 1 page. Bookmark it. Send suggestions
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📣Today we are launching an easier way to embed your fully interactive #dataviz from Observable to other platforms where you want to share your work! . Check out our announcement for more information ➡️
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The quickest way to see your data in a chart with Observable is with Vega-Lite. In less than 10 lines of code, take the first step to exploring your data visually.
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Want a quick visual overview of your dataset? Try using the new SummaryTable() function! .
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If you use Python and Jupyter, learn how Observable notebooks are different:
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Election maps can mislead when colored regions are sized to the land area instead of the number of votes. @karim_douieb shows how in his notebook: #dataviz #Election2020.
Challenge accepted! Here is a transition between surface area of US counties and their associated population. This arguably provides a much more accurate reading of the situation. @observablehq notebook: #HowChartsLie #DataViz #d3js
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📢 Introducing Observable Templates - quick ways to get started making powerful visualizations with your data.
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When you aggregate & simplify data, you often lose the signal & context needed to make sense of what you are seeing. Join us for a deep dive on the topic & let us know your thoughts! 👇
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If you want to quickly code an interactive report or analysis and email it to colleagues or host it on an intranet, integrating @rstudio or @ThePSF and Observable @JavaScript in @quarto_pub could be a great choice. Learn more:
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In this well-explained notebook, @BrianHulette shows how you can use Apache Arrow to load and analyze over 1.5 million Scrabble games.
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🎨📊 Ever wondered how top-notch web visualizations are made? Discover @d3js_org with us, from web essentials to dynamic interactions. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, there's something for everyone. 👉
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Observable has a shiny new “Explore” page, with an ever-fresh selection of notebooks:
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Developers in the real estate industry can quickly combine digital 3D floor plans w/ data layers for fast interactive dashboards using @smplrspace + Observable. Learn how Smplrspace CTO @tibotiber uses Observable for user-facing analytics & internal BI:.
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Arquero is a new JavaScript library for query processing and data transformation. Check out this illustrated guide to Arquero Verbs.by @jeffrey_heer
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Something's new at Observable! We've upgraded our design & made it easier to find & explore notebooks. The details from designer @mayaqgao:
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💫 Introducing Observable Ambassadors: folks who are passionate about visualizing data & supporting the community. "Observable matters because of the creative & inspiring members of the community." ❤️️ @Cass_Ferrara . Learn More 👉
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When you build with code you can create fast, custom data apps and dashboards — without the constraints of legacy BI tools. Explore our showcase examples to see what’s possible:
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📗 Write your first notebook or level up your Observable skills with our new 3-part tutorial series!
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See how your cells connect with the improved Minimap in the Observable Next sidebar — now showing multiplayer presence and previews of all cells, and available on mobile under the notebook menu. More info:
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A Voronoi Cloth built on Observable!.Developed for the LIRIS M2i project by Sylvain Lesage. A mashup of Voronoi Particules and Cloth Simulation using relaxed constraints solver from Three.js examples. 👀 #dataviz
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Observable Plot is a free, open-source JavaScript library to help you quickly visualize tabular data. It has a concise and (hopefully) memorable API to foster fluency — and plenty of examples to learn from and copy-paste. #observableplot #dataviz
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In 2020, @observablehq team grew from 6 to 19! Empathy is on our minds more than ever, and remembering to focus on human needs first. 💕. We put ourselves in your shoes by using Observable, we share in your joys & frustrations as users. ❓Is there anything you need from us?
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We created the free #dataviz tool below to illustrate how data visualization can help better inform users before they delete their Twitter accounts and abandon years of valuable data. Save & analyze your trove of data before it is gone forever. 👉
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We're Hiring! . We are looking for people who are compassionate advocates for developers and have the audacity to tackle some of development’s greatest challenges. Looking for developer advocates, designers, researchers, and developers in our SF office.
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We now support secrets for accessing private data and APIs! 🔑
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Everyone loves PDFs, right? Our latest notebook walkthrough is all about parsing and transforming 'em, and shows you what it's like to do exploratory coding in Observable
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Sometimes you want more from your notebooks: to survey readers, say, or for multiplayer games. Learn how to power notebooks with serverless!
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Happy Solstice! This shows the Sun’s path throughout the year from San Francisco’s point of view; the loop was tightest and spent the most time above the horizon (i.e. inside the black circle) yesterday. See it for your location:
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Sample the unknown pleasures of joyplots with Lukas Vonlanthen:.
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CONGRATS to the winners of our #WomensHistoryMonth #DataViz Contest!. In no order: @nicolaraluk @inari_ta @carmen_TM_ @karim_douieb @OliviaFVane 🏆 👏. Read all about the contest & the winning entries here: Huge thanks to everyone who participated! 🙌.
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Observable is committed to equality for all of our community, its creators, and our employees. We are committed to prioritizing marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort and to support the efforts to end racism. #BlackLivesMatter.
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If you want to embed custom, dynamic visualizations written in JavaScript into Jupyter notebooks, check out how to get data into Observable and get a chart back into Jupyter:.
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💅 @prettiercode in Observable is now a click away: formats your code automatically to keep your notebooks clean and tidy!
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Observable is hiring! . Join our team as a. - Community Manager.- Content Marketing Manager.- Data Scientist.- Designer.- Developer.- Developer Advocate.- Office Manager.- Product Manager.- Product Marketing Lead.- UX Researcher. for more.
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The Observable team is hiring! . We are looking for .- Developer Advocates (and lead).- Developers (software and data viz).- User Experience Researchers.- Designers.- Product Managers.- Product Marketing Lead.- Recruiter. To learn more, check out
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We've been busy: time for a changelog! Collections, statistics, editing improvements, and more:
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🗓️ SAVE THE DATE! . Beginning on March 7th, Data Visualization Developer Robert Kosara @eagereyes will lead Observable's course on Data Visualization Fundamentals and Best Practices. 👀 Be on the lookout next week when we share the sign-up link!
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EXCITING NEWS: today Observable secured Series B funding in partnership with @MenloVentures, @sequoia & @AcrewCapital! 🎉.
Data collaboration startup Observable raises $35.6M funding round
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Data Journalists @xavigimenez & @MarieSegger at @TheEconomist outline how Observable notebooks, data visualization libraries, and other data-related tools free up time to explore, ideate, experiment and ultimately craft the best data-driven stories. 👉
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We created a collection of curated datasets for our community to get started:.📊Google Merchandise Sales Data.📈Bandcamp Sales Data.⚡️EIA Electricity Data.🌤NOAA Hourly Weather Data.💹Plot Test Data.🌍U.S. Geographic Data.➡️ Excited to see what you create!.
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Great shout out 📢 from one of our favorite sites @flowingdata - check out these data science illustrations from recently joined Observable team member @allison_horst
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BIG NEWS: Observable is now integrated in #MicrosoftTeams, helping Microsoft customers make better business decisions using data. We are thrilled to be a @msPartner! 🤝 #MSPartner
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We sat down with our co-founder @mbostock to discuss the future of data work. Share your thoughts on the topic by using #FutureOfDatawork .
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🚨 We're hiring. Open roles at @observablehq.- Designers.- Developer Advocates.- Software Developers.- Data Visualization Developers.
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🎉 Feature launch: You can now create custom URLs for ALL of your notebooks regardless of whether they are published or private. This should make it easier to discover, share & organize your notebooks. 😎 . Check out our announcement for more details ⬇️.
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🔢 Get your notebooks in order! Observable now supports ordered collections, perfect for your next series, tutorial, or project. 🔢
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🐩 It’s a been a bit of a Zdog week over here at ObservableHQ. Munsell color space: Image to 3D landscape: 3D force-directed “Les Mis” co-occurence:
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Give your eyes a break and embrace the tech noir aesthetic - just toggle 'dark mode' in settings.
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Today we introduced a new modal to create notebooks from Templates - just click on the icon and select the template you want to start with. Here it is in action:
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📺 New Video: .Vega-Lite: A Crash Course. See how to build rapid charting and fast explorations of data on @Observablehq from our March meetup with Observable engineer @visnup .#DataVisualization #DataScience #DataViz.🙌.
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📢Meetup 8/27: All about D3!.'From Ideation to Interactive Essay with D3' ➡️@wattenberger .'Teaching Visualization Through D3 ' ➡️@mf_viz.Followed up with an AMA from D3 creator & our co-founder @mbostock . some updates on Observable from @mmeckf .📆
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Our new Data Wrangler helps you write code to ask questions of your data, like: "Which olympic sport has had the most competitors over time?" Check it out!
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🎼 Explore the intricate web of relationships between notes and chords in this interactive music theory playground. 👉
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Blue Fluorite color palettes. Inspired by @jscarto Data visualization and cartography lead @NASAEarth /
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📺 New video series! . Learning Observable: @AnjanaVakil explains core concepts & techniques for working with @ObservableHQ notebooks 📓✨. Watch & Subscribe 👉 More videos coming soon!.
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Data is the world’s most powerful asset. We are building an environment where anyone can collaborate with data to more fully understand & communicate the story it tells.
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✨ If you want to check out our new code snippets feature in action, here is a short video of it. ✨
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✍️ We're excited to announce Cell Modes! .JavaScript, Markdown, HTML, and TeX Cell Modes. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to write different types of content, not just code in the notebook!💞.Learn more about Cell Modes in Release Notes ➡️.
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Curious about cartographic coding w/ Turf.js? .Mystified by magic morphing w/ D3 & SVG?.Animated by arty animating w/ Canvas?. Then join us & ambassador @OliviaFVane for a livestream about making wonderful waterline maps! 🌊🗺️✨. Tue July 27 9am PT 📺
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Our next meetup is this Thursday, Aug 27! 🎉. This month, it's all about #D3js: @enjalot hosts talks by @Wattenberger & @mf_viz, Q&A with @mbostock & @observablehq updates from @mmeckf!. Details: Bring all your D3 questions, Observable-related or not!.
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👋 Goodbye tedious parsing of data files! Observable now supports Microsoft Excel file attachments. @msexcel
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Dependency graphs are tricky:. ① They’re overwhelming — so we show only direct dependencies (plus hints of transitive ones). ② They’re underconstrained — so we use your chosen document order as a meaningful vertical position.
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Weekly we're updating our Explore page with Staff picks and Featured creators. This week we've added @MAKIO135 notebook and @duto_guerra to staff picks. Thanks for creating on @observablehq !.👀 See all Staff picks and Featured creators here 👉
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⌨️ Write and edit faster, without taking your hands off the keyboard. New cell shortcuts let you do pretty much anything in Observable without touching that mouse.
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Do you build in @Matplotlib with #Python? If so, we have the perfect guide for you! Our newest tutorial focuses on making common #Matplotlib charts with Observable Plot - including interactive histograms & scatterplots!
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📢 Our next course is here! Advanced Data Visualization: Techniques, Interaction, and Data Patterns led @eagereyes! Join us starting June 13th at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET. Register now and dive into the world of captivating visualizations:
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We've been busy! Today’s changelog rounds up everything that's new: history, teams, secrets, merging, suggestions, dragging cells, downloading cells…
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📝 Free and open source licenses are a great way to give other people certainty that they’re allowed to reuse and remix your work. Observable now has built-in support for licensing your notebooks!.
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Announcing our take on the humble pull request, with live code and live conversation: Observable suggestions! 🎁 .
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📣 New feature! Chart cell. It simplifies the workflow and allows you to visually explore your data without any coding required. Accelerate your time to insights and try it out today!. 👉
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🎛️ 📊 Interactive dashboards: Our latest blog expands on building dashboards with Observable Framework and Plot, showing how to add interactivity and deliver higher value insights to end-users. Dive in!
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Plus: we provide an installable database proxy, if you need to connect to a local or intranet database. So you can keep data & credentials entirely on your system.
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It's a celebration! 🎉 Observable Plot turns two today, and we couldn't be more proud of its impact on the data community. 🥳Here's to more intuitive, interactive, and informative visualizations in the years to come! 🚀.
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💡Join us TOMORROW for our final session with @allison_horst. We will explore new data wrangling methods, leveraging DuckDB for seamless JS and SQL integration & more. 🎟️ Sign up here:
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