Maria Ciampa

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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

Allison Horst

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Advanced, interactive charts can be hard to build from scratch. But in Observable Canvases, you can make and share them in minutes. We highlight six new charts now available in canvases: Sankey diagrams, beeswarm charts, streamgraphs, bump charts, arc maps, and circle packing charts.

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Expanding our suite of built-in charts in Observable Canvases

Hanna Woodburn

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Our biggest release yet for Observable Canvases is here with new chart types, support for internal embedding, and dashboard creation.  


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Observable Canvases: New chart types, dashboards, and easier ways to share

Tom Barnes

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Kickstart your analysis and start visualizing data with Observable Plot. In this guide, we outline some common chart types, and share ready-to-use snippets to help you quickly start exploring data.

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Building 5 essential charts with Observable Plot

Grid cartograms are thematic maps that represent spatial regions with simplified geometric shapes like squares or hexagons. In this overview, we introduce grid cartograms, highlight pros and cons of this chart type, describe common alternatives, and share resources that can help you start building them with Observable.

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

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