Top Notebook of February 2022
Welcome 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 those two, Yuri Vishnevsky’s “Words Known Better by Males than Females, and Vice Versa” is the clear winner, as it went viral, with a 623 upvotes on Hackernews. Congrats Yuri!
@yurivish’s brilliant “Words Known Better by Males than Females, and Vice Versa” does so well because it is so relatable. You are initially skeptical that people of different gender have their own vocabulary, but then as soon as you see the data you are flummoxed by “peplum” (word known by women) or “bushido” (word known by men), so ff course it went viral!
The challenger notebook in February @tomlarkworthy the utility Automatically Backup Observable notebooks to Github. This was a notebook I wrote myself to safeguard my intellectual property developed on the platform. Now all my notebooks are automatically synced to Github, so I can be sure I never lose my hard work. Clearly, other people thought this was useful too!
