📣 Upcoming webinar alert! Hear directly from our 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. RSVP to join us on April 25th: streamyard.com/watch/NqWNUC9E…

🎨 The right color choices can bring your charts and dashboards to life. Learn best practices for effectively choosing colors for your displays of data in this new blog post. observablehq.com/blog/crafting-…

Some Observable users reported issues with notebooks loading and running properly over the past ~5 hours. The issue was related to our recent network maintenance and is now resolved. Please reach out if you continue to experience any problems!

Observable Framework makes data journalists go 'asdlfjkhalsdfhjlkasdhfjklahdsfjkljadkslfhjkadshfjlasd' — in a good way! Learn how Framework helps data viz developers build & deploy fast, custom apps & dashboards using tools they already know & love: observablehq.com

🎛️ 📊 Interactive dashboards: Our latest blog expands on building dashboards with Observable Framework and Plot, showing how to add interactivity and deliver higher value insights to end-users.

Dive in! observablehq.com/blog/how-to-ad…

Observable Framework 1.5 is out! 🆕 Config changes now live-update during preview; the socket automatically reconnects if the preview server restarts; external links now have rel=noreferrer by default; and more in the release notes. 👇 github.com/observablehq/f…

In Observable Framework, you can build faster data apps & dashboards by writing data loaders that minimize files & client-side data processing. Read more about why we embrace data loaders for speed, polyglot workflows, & thoughtful dashboard design: observablehq.com/blog/data-load…

Same, Stephanie. Observable Framework is made for developers who want to build fast, expressive data apps and dashboards with their existing tools and workflows — and without constraints. Learn more at observablehq.com

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We 💚 hearing how folks are building with Framework!
👉Learn how Maryanne Wachter mclare.bsky.social built and deployed a Framework project mapping potential retrofit solutions to reduce carbon emissions from Boston buildings: mclare.blog/posts/building…

ICYMI, we've made big updates to Observable Framework since launch, including:

- Windows support
- Support for Node 18 & self-hosted npm imports
- SQL code blocks powered by DuckDB
- Mosaic vgplot integration
+ more!

See what's new in our release notes👇
observablehq.com/release-notes

Observable Framework 1.4 🆕 supports externally-hosted (live) SQL data sources, the DuckDB database file format, local assets in head/header/footer, file.lastModified, decoupled build & deploy, and more! github.com/observablehq/f…