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Ambassador Spotlight David Kirkby

Observable Ambassador and Cosmology Professor David Kirkby studies the origin and evolution of the Universe. Read more about his data work and check out his Penrose Quilt notebook.

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Ambassador Spotlight: David Kirkby, Professor of Cosmology at UC Irvine

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The Observable team and community have created thousands of openly shared data visualizations in Observable Plot and D3. To easily reuse them, your data needs to be in the expected shape. Learn about the data shapes that many Plot and D3 charts consume, and how to transform your data so you can drop it into existing examples.

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Reshaping data for visualizations with D3 and Observable Plot

In Observable Canvases, charts representing millions of records are generated almost instantaneously. Learn how we keep data visualizations fast by limiting data returned by SQL queries and giving charts just the information they need.

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Big data, fast data visualizations

It’s 2025. Nobody is fighting the idea that data can help companies make better decisions. But recognizing that data culture is good for business, and putting it into practice, are very different things. Learn how data analysts can contribute to a stronger data culture within their organization. 

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How data analysts can improve data culture across their organization

Given how common histograms are in BI tools, you might think they’re easy to design. Think again. We share challenges we encountered, and how we handled them, while designing better out-of-the-box histograms in Observable Canvases.

Ambassador Spotlight: David Kirkby, Professor of Cosmology at UC Irvine

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