Jun 1, 2022Member-only5 Inspiring Computational Notebooks of May 2022May had 4 times more engagement with the Trending Notebook Bot than April! This is an unprecedented jump in activity! I think this was due to @waynesutton returning as community manager for Observable (👋 great to have you back Wayne!) and retweeting us a lot. Thanks Wayne, it makes a…6 min read6 min read
May 3, 2022Member-onlyTop Dataviz of April 2022 — Visualizing Air Raid Sirens in UkraineThis month, our Trending Notebook Bot saw huge engagement with Volodymyr Agafonkin ‘s notebook Visualizing Air Raid Sirens in Ukraine. It’s the biggest hit of the year so far. Engagement, Impressions, Likes and Retweets The notebook went viral on Twitter from Volodymyr’s own tweet. This went viral because it provides a unique angle to a…Programming3 min readProgramming3 min read
Apr 1, 2022Member-only5 Inspiring Notebooks of March 2022It’s my favourite part of the month when I get to review what has happened recently on the Observable Dataviz platform. This month, three notebooks had very similar engagement as measured by the Twitter analytics of the Trending Notebook Bot. Engagement, Impressions, Likes and RetweetsMachine Learning4 min readMachine Learning4 min read
Mar 20, 2022Have your Tarot read by ChatGPT insideOpenAI’s chatGPT is an excellent Tarot reader. Check it out for yourself… (it takes a little while to load) The code is open source and can be found here.Artificial Intelligence1 min readArtificial Intelligence1 min read
Mar 1, 2022Member-onlyTop Notebook of February 2022Welcome to the second monthly summary of what is hot on the Observable Dataviz platform. I write these articles to help myself stay on top of all the good work coming out of Observable. Last month, two notebooks, in particular, did well on the timeline of the trending bot, of…Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
Feb 8, 2022Member-only5 Inspiring Computational Notebooks of January 2022Welcome to the first edition of a monthly summary of what is hot on the Observable Dataviz platform. There is so much activity it is sometimes hard to stay up to date and not miss anything juicy. This newsletter is dedicated to finding the gems. …Data Science4 min readData Science4 min read
Dec 31, 2021Member-only100 Beautiful and Informative Notebooks of 2021It’s the end of 2021, and I would like to reminisce about the amazing work that was produced on Observable over the last year. I have taken all the notebooks that were trending from the Top Trending Notebook Twitter Bot and picked 100 good ones. The broad categories apparent in…Data Science34 min readData Science34 min read
Dec 27, 2021Member-onlyStarting Github Action Workflows From ObservableUsing Observable as the front end for Github Actions is a great way to provide a nice interface without the hassle of hosting anything. Recently I developed a notebook library that allows authenticated and unauthenticated users to kick off Action workflow via a repository dispatch. A repository dispatch triggers Github…Observablehq4 min readObservablehq4 min read
Dec 7, 2021Member-onlyCreating long-lasting content on ObservableI am 100% convinced Observable is the right way to share computational thought. Sometimes though, it feels like notebooks are only read once during their birth on the page. However, I am happy to report you can create long-lasting content with lots of repeat visitors and it is surprisingly straightforward…Notebook4 min readNotebook4 min read
Nov 24, 2021Member-onlyHow to 1-of-n switch Dataflow streams on ObservableIn this series, I will explore programming techniques for the notebook platform Observable. Today I am looking at how to direct a reactive…Observablehq2 min readObservablehq2 min read
