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

Stdlib mentions https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/datasets (in https://github.com/observablehq/stdlib/blob/77e77c5/src/library.js#L60).

Can we add an alias for that slug to this notebook?

Fabian Iwand

The standard library also includes two hierarchical sample datasets not listed here: flare, and miserables.

Toph Tucker

olympians.csv

cars.csv

weather.csv

penguins.csv

diamonds.csv

industries.csv

aapl.csv

alphabet.csv

citywages.csv

pizza.csv

-aapl

-alphabet

-cars

-citywages

-diamonds

_flare

-industries

_miserables

-olympians

-penguins

_pizza

-weather