Observable Introduces: Data Table Cell

We're excited to announce the launch of the Observable Data Table Cell. Data Table Cell is a visual data analysis tool that allows you to quickly explore and analyze your data directly in the UI.

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Plot 0.5: For More Expressive and Articulate Data Visualizations

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We are delighted to introduce Observable Plot 0.5, which now supports more chart types, including hexbins, beeswarms, and more. These new features allow you to be more expressive and articulate in your data work. See the release notes for more details, and the new documentation notebooks for the dodge and the hexbin transforms.

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The NBA Finals Players Data Jam On Observable

Spoiler alert! Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals sealed the Warriors' victory against the Celtics. Here at Observable, we weren't just watching the game...

We were creating notebooks with data animation cards of players, and plots covering game data, who was on the court, the view from the score board, and more. Get in-depth analysis of the NBA Finals here.

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Community Spotlight

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Over the past month, the Observable community has created a wide variety of notebooks showing some of the possibilities of what of story you can tell with data and the impact it could have. Below are some our community spotlights:

Mass shootings in the US by Mark McClure
Atomic Agents: Polylines and forces by Graham McNeill
Andy's Walgreens COVID-19 Tracker Tracker by Andy Bloch
Kanji with Radicals by Dea Bankova
A Very, Very Tiny Grammar of Graphics by Josh Pollock
Displaying IBM Carbon charts in Observable by John Haldeman

Learn more about these notebooks

User Requested Product Improvements

🙏 We are thankful for a community that cares and takes time to submit issues on our community feedback repository. Here are some key feature requests and bug fixes that we recently closed:

Cell names are now validated
If a user enters an invalid name in the cell toolbar, it is now flagged as an error and not accepted as an input. Thank you @amyzhaoyu and @mootari for reporting this problem! [#403, #423]
SVG attachments in downloaded notebooks can now be accessed
Thank you @tomlarkworthy for filing this bug report! [#202]
Fixed the ’created’ date on the activity section of a user’s home page
We fixed an issue that bundled notebook creation with edit events that occurred on the same day. Thank you @mootari for catching this bug! [#331]

Visit our feedback repository

Data Exploration in Action - UNAVCO

“We measure the precise position of everything, every second, to enable a better understanding of our planet.”

UNAVCO is a non-profit organization, supported primarily by the National Science Foundation, with a mission to understand the Earth and how it changes over time; from its atmosphere, to its crust, and all the way down to its center.

David Mencin, Director of Data Services at UNAVCO and Brooks Mershon, Software Engineer at UNAVCO was kind enough to sit down with our team and share how their team makes data shareable and accessible by building live demos of UNAVCO’s data APIs, visual tools to query data, and exploratory dashboards in Observable.

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Upcoming Events & Learning opportunities 📅

	When	Topic
Join Us	June 22	Observable For Excel Users
Join Us	June 29	Working in Observable Teams Q&A
Join Us	July 13	Observable for Data Analysts
Join Us	July 20	Observable for SQL: Faster analysis

Observable is Hiring!

We are currently looking to fill a variety of roles including Senior Software Engineer, Senior Web Developer, Product Manager and Senior Product Manager, Product Marketer, and more. Please help us spread the word!

Check out Jobs at Observable