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Hah, I just pared down that “More from Observable creators” section the other day to make it less obtrusive, and inadvertently made it more confusingly blend into the notebook cont…

From the Observable Framework point of view, you’re very welcome to use Apache ECharts or any other library instead of Observable Plot, since you can import whatever you like and i…

Haha yeah, that’s well put — “latest” depends on time, and something that depends on time is not deterministic, so those principles conflict. Currently a Framework project has the …

Good questions. 1. It’s just JavaScript so you can fetch stuff dynamically too (see https://observablehq.com/framework/lib/duckdb ). But yeah, only client-side. (Though see https:/…

Yeah there are some open issues about more granular rebuilds and chaining data loaders. https://github.com/observablehq/framework/issues/638 , https://github.com/observablehq/frame…

We’ve talked about and shared your “File over app” manifesto so many times internally over the last few months. It’s one of those tweets that gets immortalized as the perfect cryst…

Yeah data loaders are like a UNIX pipe to a reactive notebook cell (?). There needn’t be any question of “do the data loaders support this or that”; it doesn’t even have a concept …

I’d never heard of Airnow; do you know if that’s where Apple and Google Maps get their AQI data too? I like seeing some points spill over to Canada… nice hint of the international …

asciidoc-diagram & Kroki look cool, hadn’t seen them. I don’t think Plot’s very good at (or built for) that sort of diagramming, though you can do it if you want: https://observabl…

There’s no animation built-in currently. But it’s fast enough that you can often just throw away and re-render the Plot (i.e. handle the animation externally). Mike Freeman made a …

Out of curiosity I’d love to see any examples where you think Plotly is especially strong for scientific plotting. I’ve used Plot lots and Plotly none, but I’d guess the big Plotly…

It’s not easy to do radial stuff right now; you can upvote this issue: https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/133 One bizarre workaround right now is to abuse the geographic p…

Fil (one of the Plot developers) made https://github.com/Fil/plot-cli , and Michael Keller has https://github.com/mhkeller/plot/ , which supports Plot (and Vega-Lite and Plotly). C…

Re 1), I like Mike's talk from the 10th anniversary of D3. It came while working on Plot but before it was officially released; a few of the points relate to the high/low-level thi…

Oops yup shared! I gave a presentation once on why I kinda like pie charts but it was based on zero research so I'd be interested to see that. I mean I think if you're just showing…

Maps are the big new thing but note that projections mean you can also now do pie and donut charts lol: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/pie-to-donut-chart

Yeah, we at Observable love Vega-Lite (and Arquero etc). My coworker Ian wrote a great summary of how Plot relates to Vega-Lite here: https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/plot-ve…

Yup. There’s some discussion of this in this issue https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues/359 , which notes that the ~100 test plots in https://github.com/observablehq/plot/tr…

Not currently, but we’ve talked about it. We’ve been using a lot more TS internally lately so there’s a growing case and it’s good to hear your vote.

nice. great clear thorough code snippets on homepage. i should try it. why "tamber"?

I like "insider information" as a lazy excuse for the hinting/info-leakage problem. :) It's a metaphor!! -the developer

Did notice, didn't know what to do about it. I think it's the main problem with the game. There are plenty of options that don't leak and maybe I was just too enamored of the visce…