Observable
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 17, 2026first mention
Sep 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“fil's AirOcean projection on the original ObservableHQ is a fun starting point”
“start with literate programming tools like Jupyter notebooks or Observable.”
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“after being spoiled by Observable and Pluto.jl”
“I do work a lot on ObservableHQ.com with data visualizations”
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Caveats and dissent
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“I once made a little tool for getting more intuitive spatial scales for things in the universe at https://observablehq.com/@ikesau/scale-to-the-universe”
“fil's AirOcean projection on the original ObservableHQ is a fun starting point”
“I made this few years ago for Singapore”
“start with literate programming tools like Jupyter notebooks or Observable.”
“Observable's Notebooks (Javascript) work the same way: output above the code that produces it.”
“after being spoiled by Observable and Pluto.jl”
“I do work a lot on ObservableHQ.com with data visualizations and generative art.”
“the observable is mid-iteration”
“I do work a lot on ObservableHQ.com with data visualizations”
“is actually very good at notebook programming”