Whether your data is hosted on the web, stored in a database, or saved in a local file, you can access it from Observable with these techniques.

Mike Bostock

Observable

Introduction to data

Visnu Pitiyanuvath

Connecting to databases

Self-hosted database proxies

Cobus Theunissen

AWS S3 private file access

Justin Ting

Databases panel and schema viewer

Sample datasets

Ian Johnson

Curated datasets

Custom database clients for use with Observable SQL cells.

Database Clients

Learn how Observable works, from first edit to publish.

Documentation

Getting Data In and Out

Working With Data

Excel

Resources for working with SQL in Observable

Datasets curated to be comprehensive and real, yet simple and friendly. Ideal for learning, teaching and web based demonstration of data analysis and visualization.