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Mike Bostock and Toph Tucker talk reactivity and making code easier for humans to understand. They show the quirky syntax of Observable Notebooks 1.0, and how Notebooks 2.0 brings …

A personal reflection on the retrospective of Nathalie Magnan (1956–2016) — artist, hacktivist, and key figure in cyberfeminism. Magnan translated Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto …

Allow me to open with a wildly speculative question: What if the internet were public interest technology? I mean "internet" the way most people understand it, which is to say our …

It’s only the first public release, rest assured we have plans to develop it beyond that point :-) Data tables are high on the list, but it’s going to be a lot of work and I can’t …

See the example at https://huggingface.co/spaces/observablehq/fpdn where DuckDB is used both as a data loader (to download and digest 200GB worth of source data into a small 8MB pa…

The code in a Framework can do whatever you want it to do—it can load data on demand, call an external API, etc. Precomputing data is only an option, not an obligation. But even wh…

You can still use D3 the good old-fashioned way, as a standalone script. See https://d3js.org/getting-started#d3-in-vanilla-html for examples.

Given the news today I wanted to see how quickly one can find live air quality data and create a DIY map. Using Observable Plot.

Here's an example https://observablehq.com/@jonhelfman/plot-violin-chart-with-... We don't have a good KDE built-in yet, but you could upvote https://github.com/observablehq/plot/i…