Visualization toolmaker. Founder @observablehq. Creator @d3js_org. Former @nytgraphics. Pronounced BOSS-tock.
San Francisco, CA
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Observable Notebook Kit and Desktop 1.3.0 are out, featuring data loader cells. You can now (finally!!) write Python and Node.js in notebooks. 🐍 observablehq.com/notebook-ki…
ALT Editing a notebook in Observable Desktop: a Python cell generates a synthetic daily temperature dataset using numpy and pandas, which is then output as CSV; the data is then visualized as a line chart with Observable Plot.
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For more than a year, we’ve been quietly building an all-new Observable. Today, that new Observable is live on observablehq.com. Read @mbostock’s announcement: observablehq.com/@observable…
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In this notebook, @LaoTzunami visualizes a state space of possible chart types and transitions among them along defined edges. Transitions between unconnected types are achieved by routing through intermediate types. observablehq.com/d/3c8b08281…
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Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open notebook file format and tooling for building static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2…
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And last, the new editor’s AI is pretty mind-blowing 🤯, focused on quick ideation and iteration… piped.video/watch?v=BeH6AhiQ…
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Please try out Observable Desktop and Observable Notebook Kit today. We’d love your feedback, bug reports, ideas, etc.! github.com/observablehq/note…
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We chatted with award-winning journalist and Reuters applications editor @palewire about building back-end data pipelines for data journalism. Learn how he's cutting down the time data journalists spend writing code, to make time for more important work: buff.ly/4fJFIF8
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Curious how donations to candidates spike & ebb in response to current events? So was Ryan Murphy, creator of the popular ActBlue Ticker Tracker notebook on Observable. Ryan joined us to share a behind the scenes view into why & how he made it: buff.ly/404UjXi
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For Crankstart’s new Streets to Stability report, @jasonforrestftw & team used Observable Framework to build a customized, interactive site highlighting the current state of homelessness in SF, and reimagining a future state.
See the impactful new piece: buff.ly/48fWSI3
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JSR imports in Observable!
Observable Framework 1.12 is here! Big 🆕 features: exported modules & files to power embedded analytics; @jsr_io imports; improved layout with more sidebar customization; broken link detection. And lots more! github.com/observablehq/fram…
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Observable Framework 1.12 is here! Big 🆕 features: exported modules & files to power embedded analytics; @jsr_io imports; improved layout with more sidebar customization; broken link detection. And lots more! github.com/observablehq/fram…
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Learn more about our approach to embedded analytics here: observablehq.com/framework/e…
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Observable Cloud is live! 🚀 We’re helping data teams realize their full potential by shipping best-in-class, blazingly fast data apps directly to users. observablehq.com/blog/announ…
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🚀 Big news! We’ve launched Observable Cloud — a game-changer for deploying and managing Framework data apps. Deliver performant data apps with scheduled builds and deploy-on-commit for dashboards that are smarter, always up-to-date, and CI/CD ready. observablehq.com/blog/announ…
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Observable Framework 1.11 🆕 adds parameterized routes and page loaders for dynamically generating pages! github.com/observablehq/fram…
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Observable Plot 0.6.16 🆕 is out! Adds a waffle 🧇 mark, tips for the geo mark, more support for GeoJSON & Apache Arrow data, more options for rounded corners, and a bunch of other improvements and bug fixes.
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See the full release notes here: github.com/observablehq/plot…
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New waffle mark 🧇 docs here: observablehq.com/plot/marks/…
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