5 Inspiring Computational Notebooks of May 2022

May 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 big impact on us! I had to rescale all my plots to accommodate!

May had four notebooks, in particular, that broke from the pack this month, each gaining many likes and retweets. I would say we are still waiting for a true viral Tweet authored by the trending bot, but we are getting some close calls!

The very top notebook was Hello MapLibre which had 18 likes and 6 retweets. @neocartocnrs is a familiar name in the Map Dataviz and Observable community. MapLibre is the OSS fork of mapbox-gl-js, and requires a little Observable know-how to get working properly. Creating a Hello X notebook is an Observablehq community norm when getting new technology into the ecosystem, and MapLibre is a highly desirable dependency for the mapping community. Thus, getting that library working was a big deal, which was eagerly snapped up by the community. Since publishing, we have seen some other notebooks…