Every month, we highlight the inspiring work being done in Observable by creators in our supportive user community. We also provide development updates, showcase new features, and share opportunities to connect with — and learn from — each other.

Join the Observable Community at Observable [_Insight_,](https://hopin.com/events/observable-insight/registration) our first community conference. We're delighted to invite you to join us online October 26-27.

The conference brings together creative data practitioners from all industries, geographic locations, and experience levels.

At Observable _Insight_, developers, data scientists, analysts, and others who use - or want to use - Observable will:

- Explore data visualization trends

- Experience data collaboration

- Learn what’s next for Observable

- Leave inspired and informed!

Come see what your data can show!

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Are you comfortable doing data science in Python, but want to leverage the interactive nature of JavaScript? Check out our newest tutorial on learning JavaScript for Python users.

Observable leverages the interactive power of JavaScript to make visualizations and ML model simulations come to life. If you’re used to Python, we have the perfect tutorial for you. Learn JavaScript basics in no time.

<a href="https://observablehq.com/d/f434e89b310e0b28?collection=@observablehq/learning-javascript-for-data-scientists" class="button">Read more </a>

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** _A Fun Way to Get Started Exploring Data_ **

ICYMI, your personal homepage on Observable has 3 quick start projects, where we provide a step-by-step guide to explore different data sets and learn more about how to use Observable in a fun way.

[<img width="100%" src="http://cdn.mcauto-images-production.sendgrid.net/9512743694f5796e/d577aaf8-3528-41e6-a0bf-8230f091ffa5/2300x556.png" alt="quick guides">](https://observablehq.com/{{{login}}})

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## Observable Ambassadors' Stories, in Their Words

In our fifth in the Observable Ambassador series, we shine a spotlight on Andrew Wooldridge, Senior Software Engineer at eBay.

[<img width="100%" src="http://cdn.mcauto-images-production.sendgrid.net/9512743694f5796e/5bc9b206-ba1d-47fb-84ca-e3f367389c4e/1280x800.png" alt="observable ambassador stories">](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/andrew-wooldridge-observable-ambassador?collection=@observablehq/observable-blog&&utm_source=newsletter)

<a href="https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/andrew-wooldridge-observable-ambassador?collection=@observablehq/observable-blog&&utm_source=newsletter" class="button">Read more</a>

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## September Community Spotlight

Have you seen all the amazing notebooks the Observable community has created over the past month? Take a look!

- [Similarity search on millions of books, in-browser](https://observablehq.com/@bmschmidt/similarity-search-on-millions-of-books-in-browser) by Benjamin Schmidt

- [Gridded Population (15 minute) - United States](https://observablehq.com/@gallowayevan/gridded-population-15-minute-united-states) by Evan Galloway

- [Analyzing Indian Businesses](https://observablehq.com/@solverbot/analyzing-indian-businesses) by M M Kamalraj

View more [featured creators](https://observablehq.com/featured-creators) or [trending notebooks](https://observablehq.com/trending).

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## Updates from our Community Feedback repo

🙏 We are thankful for a community that cares and takes time to submit issues on our [community feedback repository](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback). Here are some key feature requests and bug fixes that we recently closed:

- **Invalid cell names no longer prevent notebook imports**

<br>A bug was causing imports from notebooks with any invalid cell names to fail. Invalid names for cells are no longer allowed since a fix that was deployed earlier this year, but older notebooks may still have cells with invalid names. This fix treats such cells as unnamed so that the compiled notebook is free of syntax errors and other cells in the notebook may still be imported. [[#478](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback/issues/478)]

- **You can now apply bold formatting to inline code in markdown cells**

<br>A bug that overwrote the CSS for bold-formatted inline code in markdown cells has been fixed. [[#473](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback/issues/473)]

- **Auto-completions no longer forced for object members**

<br> A comma and newline sequence when typing out the properties of an object was forcing the insertion of auto-complete suggestions. This bug was fixed by refining conditions under which auto-completions are shown. [[#479](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback/issues/479)]

Thanks to @mootari for flagging these bugs!<br>

<a href="https://github.com/observablehq/feedback" class="button">Visit our feedback repository</a>

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## Upcoming Events & Learning Opportunities 📅

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| [Join Us](https://www.meetup.com/observablehq/events/288442728/) | Sept 27| Observable Educator's Network Gathering |

| [Join Us](https://www.meetup.com/observablehq/events/286399625/) | Sept 28 | Working in Observable Teams Q&A|

| [Join Us](https://www.meetup.com/observablehq/events/288585733/)| Oct 4 | Product Education Meetup|

| [Join Us](https://hopin.com/events/observable-insight/registration) | Oct 26-27 | Observable _Insight_ conference|

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## Observable is Hiring!

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

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