In this week’s walkthrough video, I make an index chart for visualizing stock performance. Hope you like it, and ideas and suggestions welcome! 🙏

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Did you know Observable offers a no-cost workspace for teachers educating the next generation of data visionaries? 👉 Reach out to us 👈 before the semester starts to set up a workspace for your class and join other teachers in the #C049DDYMDCJ community channel!

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Happy Wednesday! Our Observable documentation is your go-to guide for everything from inputs to embeds. ⚙️ 🧠 Explore, learn, and create with us: https://observablehq.com/documentation/

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👋 Hi everyone! As part of our recent Community Slack update, we welcome you to join two new channels: • #C06EZB298NS: Where new users, seasoned experts, and everyone in between can discuss and ask questions about building data visualizations in Observable Plot • #C06EZB886J2: Discussions and questions about working in Observable notebooks, collaborating with teammates, and sharing your work at observablehq.com See you there!

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📣 Hi everyone, upcoming webinar alert! Join us Thursday, April 25th for a discussion with Observable founder @Mike Bostock about the last mile problem that data teams face, and how better data architecture (and data loaders!) can help you build faster, richer data apps. Register for this free event: https://streamyard.com/watch/NqWNUC9EqDnb

Hey everyone! We’re excited to share that all Observable Framework projects hosted on Observable now come with analytics built in. 📈 Fight dashboard rot! Shine a light on under-utilized pages of your app, optimizing for efficiency and sustained value. 🛠️ Build better apps Get a clear view of engagement over time, making sure you’re reaching the right audience to steer strategic decisions. 💡 See the impact of your work Discover who engages with your dashboards, what captures their interest, and how often they return. Project analytics are available exclusively to projects deployed on Observable. Learn more in our new blog post about keeping tabs on your dashboards with new enhanced analytics from @Paul (Observable Team)!

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🚀 Webinar starting in 20 minutes! Topic: A Practical Introduction to Observable Framework's Data Loaders Join us for a live session with Allison Horst, Paul Buffa, and Michael Cooper as they dive into the essentials of data loaders and share advanced strategies and tips. Don't miss out on gaining practical knowledge to speed up your data apps! Starting in 20 minutes – See you soon! 🌟

📣 Hi everyone! We’re excited to announce our next webinar hosted by Data Visualization Developer @Robert Kosara on August 20 at 10am PT. There’s a common misconception that building data apps as static sites means you’ll be sacrificing interactivity and expressiveness. But with the right tools and deployment strategy, static site generators like Observable Framework can help you create fast, rich, and interactive data apps that keep data fresh. Join us for a deep dive into what static site generators are, and how they improve data app performance and user experience. Register today: https://streamyard.com/watch/DvVwaeUTqgJG

🎉 New beta feature: Quickly convert your Observable Notebooks into Framework data apps! 🎉 Hi everyone ~ If you’re a notebook user, but haven’t yet taken the leap into Observable Framework to build custom data apps, now is the time! 🚀 We just released our built-in convert command, which converts your public Observable notebooks into Markdown for use in Framework data apps. Create a new Framework project, and run the convert command:

npm run observable convert <notebook-url>

or

yarn observable convert <notebook-url>

Usually, it just takes a few manual tweaks to get your app up-and-running. Check out the convert documentation to learn about limitations, more options (including to convert multiple notebooks at once!), and tips for updating your notebook code for Framework compatibility. And, for a broader overview of how Observable Notebooks and Framework work together, read our latest blog post. Go ahead and give the convert command a try. We’re excited to see how you evolve your notebooks into presentation-ready data apps, and to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Hi everyone! We’re making some changes to our Community Slack to increase the long-term discoverability of your discussions, and to make your feedback more actionable. Starting next week, we are asking you to: • 🔀 Redirect discussions from the #C06KPR8FCE4, #C06EZB298NS and #C05BA8345B8 channels to their Github discussion boards👇 ◦ Observable Plot GitHub discussion board ◦ Observable Framework GitHub discussion board ◦ D3 GitHub discussion board • 🔀 Redirect questions from #C03SEMPUF6F and #C06EZB886J2 to our community forum We will be archiving the #C06KPR8FCE4, #C06EZB298NS, #C05BA8345B8, #C03SEMPUF6F, and #C06EZB886J2 channels on 8/30. Our Community Slack will continue to be a place where the community can connect and share, and where the Observable team can share updates. The changes above will ensure that your valuable discussions, questions, and solutions remain available long term, are more easily discoverable and searchable, and can be tracked better for feature changes. Thank you for helping us to keep your discussions alive!

👋 Hi everyone! Today, we updated our UI to make it easier to organize your Framework data apps and notebooks on Observable. Check out our release notes to learn what’s new: https://observablehq.com/release-notes/2024-09-05-ui-data-apps

Hey everyone! We’re excited to announce a new release which makes it easier to deploy and manage your data apps — Observable Cloud! This launch builds on the success of Observable Framework and provides a hosting solution purpose-built for data apps. Observable Cloud gives you: Architected for performance: Deliver rich, interactive data experiences at scale Scheduled builds: Automate updates to keep your data apps fresh CI/CD for data apps: Connect to a GitHub repo for simple continuous deployments Built in analytics: Monitor engagement and usage patterns with built-in analytics Private cloud hosting: Enterprise workspaces can keep their data and code private within their network 🔔 Join us for a webinar to see these features in action! We will demo the new capabilities and answer your questions in a live Q&A on Thursday, September 19th at 10 AM PT. Register now In the meantime, learn more about these features by checking out the documentation and announcement blog, and release notes.

Hi all, we’re excited to welcome you to our biggest event of the year – Observable Insight 2024! Join us on December 3 for this half-day virtual event (featuring live demos, tech talks, creator spotlights, and more) to: ⚡ Hear about our vision and what we’ve been building, straight from Mike Bostock ✨ Be among to the first to see demos of our newest features 🧑‍🏫 Learn new approaches for creating and shipping visualizations 🤝 Connect with the Observable community Registration is open, so sign up today! https://observablehq.com/insight 📣 We’re also looking for Insight speakers! See our Call for Speakers and submit your proposal here → https://forms.gle/i2as6mLHrHWE2vmg8

📣 Observable Insight is coming up on December 3rd. We're looking speakers, and we want to hear from you! We’re especially excited for talks highlighting: 📈 Tips for how to take data visualizations to the next level 👀 Behind the scenes of building data apps with Observable ⛰️ Best practices for overcoming organizations hurdles and stakeholder management 🤿 Deep-dives into the (technical) weeds of how you built a data app Submit your talk here → https://forms.gle/i2as6mLHrHWE2vmg8 Learn more about Insight → observablehq.com/insight/2024

We’re excited to announce a powerful new capability to Observable Cloud: Embedded Analytics. Data teams can now seamlessly integrate dynamic data visualizations straight from Observable Cloud into existing websites and applications. Developers and product managers across industries want to give their users fast, dynamic, interactive data experiences. The demand for in-app data visualization is growing, as users expect rich insights and seamless integration directly within the tools they already rely on. But that integration has traditionally required costly engineering resources, or heavy lifting to manipulate low-level data visualization libraries that don’t easily scale or adapt to modern data app needs. These traditional methods often mean fetching and processing data in real-time, resulting in slow pages and a less engaging user experience. With Observable’s solution for Embedded Analytics, there’s a faster, smarter way. By leveraging Observable’s ‘baked data’ architecture, reactivity, and polyglot data loaders, organizations can now integrate responsive, high-performance analytics directly into their applications. Learn more: • Embedded analytics blog post •

📣 Reminder: Observable Insight is just a week away on December 3rd — don’t forget to register! From talks about how designers and developers can build better data visualizations by working together to new approaches for common visualizations, like election maps, there’s something at Insight for everyone. Sign up --> https://observablehq.com/insight/2024

👋 Hi everyone! We just launched early access for our newest feature: Observable Canvases. 🎉 Canvases are a new way for teams to visually explore data, run analyses, and build interactive charts and dashboards — all in one visual, collaborative whiteboard in the browser. It’s built for cross-functional workflows where analysts, PMs, and developers work in the same space — using code when it helps, and visual tools when it’s faster. Early access is currently open to data teams, so if that’s you, we’d love to have you try it out. 👉 https://observablehq.com/blog/introducing-canvases-early-access