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This is the first I've heard of Observable and I loved this. It was a great introduction for me--practical and immediately obvious.

jacobolus 7y ago
Here are a small handful of my favorite notebooks, chosen for variety of style/theme/author, and in no particular order: https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds-2 https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds-2 https://observablehq.com/@benmaier/a-visually-more-appealing-fisheye-function https://observablehq.com/@benmaier/a-visually-more-appealing... https://observablehq.com/@veltman/centerline-labeling https://observablehq.com/@veltman/centerline-labeling https://observablehq.com/@pstuffa/making-maps-with-nyc-open-data https://observablehq.com/@pstuffa/making-maps-with-nyc-open-... https://observablehq.com/@mootari/getting-artsy-with-lloyd https://observablehq.com/@mootari/getting-artsy-with-lloyd https://observablehq.com/@visnup/cheat https://observablehq.com/@visnup/cheat https://observablehq.com/@bps10/sensations-from-single-cones https://observablehq.com/@bps10/sensations-from-single-cones https://observablehq.com/@gre/introduction-to-functional-rendering-paradigm https://observablehq.com/@gre/introduction-to-functional-ren... https://observablehq.com/@redblobgames/delaunator https://observablehq.com/@redblobgames/delaunator https://observablehq.com/@larsvers/hexgrid-maps-with-d3-hexgrid https://observablehq.com/@larsvers/hexgrid-maps-with-d3-hexg... https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/rotating-geometry https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/rotating-geometry https://observablehq.com/@stwind/how-raymarching-works https://observablehq.com/@stwind/how-raymarching-works https://observablehq.com/@fil/modified-stereographic-projections https://observablehq.com/@fil/modified-stereographic-project... https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/tissots-indicatrices-on-a-spherical-fibonacci-lattice https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/tissots-indicatrices-on-a... https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/manipulating-flat-arrays https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/manipulating-flat-arrays
- fnord77 7y ago
  On the iphone, safari tries to open these links in mail. Unescaped @ symbols are invalid for URL paths. What does it say about a company who can't even get URLs right?
  - charrondev 7y ago
    They open fine on my iPhone for what it’s worth. iOS 12.
  - dang 7y ago
    Please don't post shallow dismissals and please don't be snarky. These are two of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Your comment would be just fine without that last sentence.
  - erik_seaberg 7y ago
    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt allows URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ] hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty path-abempty = *( "/" segment ) segment = *pchar pchar = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" / "@" and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt originally said > Within the <path> and <searchpart> components, "/", ";", "?" are reserved.
- jdlshore 7y ago
  What a generous comment! I'm going to check these out. Thanks for sharing.
- jacobolus 7y ago
  Here’s a list of some of @Fil’s favorites https://observablehq.com/@fil/cool-observable-notebooks https://observablehq.com/@fil/cool-observable-notebooks Here are some more of mine: https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/diy-hillshade https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/diy-hillshade https://observablehq.com/@harrystevens/mapping-gridded-data-with-a-voronoi-diagram https://observablehq.com/@harrystevens/mapping-gridded-data-... https://observablehq.com/@ehouais/korolev-crater https://observablehq.com/@ehouais/korolev-crater https://observablehq.com/@vorth/regular-polygon-algebra-geometry https://observablehq.com/@vorth/regular-polygon-algebra-geom... https://observablehq.com/@grtlr/stippling-of-2d-scalar-fields https://observablehq.com/@grtlr/stippling-of-2d-scalar-field... https://observablehq.com/@mootari/bulge-illusion https://observablehq.com/@mootari/bulge-illusion https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/octree-color-quantization https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/octree-color-quantization https://observablehq.com/@bryangingechen/lattice-reduction https://observablehq.com/@bryangingechen/lattice-reduction https://observablehq.com/@robstelling/t-sne_en https://observablehq.com/@robstelling/t-sne_en https://observablehq.com/@tophtucker/inferring-chart-type-from-autocorrelation-and-other-evils https://observablehq.com/@tophtucker/inferring-chart-type-fr... https://observablehq.com/@vorth/exploring-4d-quaternion-rotations https://observablehq.com/@vorth/exploring-4d-quaternion-rota... https://observablehq.com/@sethpipho/fractal-tree https://observablehq.com/@sethpipho/fractal-tree https://observablehq.com/@esperanc/sketchable-vector-fields https://observablehq.com/@esperanc/sketchable-vector-fields https://observablehq.com/@jheer/barnes-hut-approximation-error https://observablehq.com/@jheer/barnes-hut-approximation-err... https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/gooey-halftone-svg-gradients https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/gooey-halftone-svg-gradi...

jacobolus 7y ago

Here are a small handful of my favorite notebooks, chosen for variety of style/theme/author, and in no particular order: https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds-2 https://observablehq.com/@freedmand/sounds-2 https://observablehq.com/@benmaier/a-visually-more-appealing-fisheye-function https://observablehq.com/@benmaier/a-visually-more-appealing... https://observablehq.com/@veltman/centerline-labeling https://observablehq.com/@veltman/centerline-labeling https://observablehq.com/@pstuffa/making-maps-with-nyc-open-data https://observablehq.com/@pstuffa/making-maps-with-nyc-open-... https://observablehq.com/@mootari/getting-artsy-with-lloyd https://observablehq.com/@mootari/getting-artsy-with-lloyd https://observablehq.com/@visnup/cheat https://observablehq.com/@visnup/cheat https://observablehq.com/@bps10/sensations-from-single-cones https://observablehq.com/@bps10/sensations-from-single-cones https://observablehq.com/@gre/introduction-to-functional-rendering-paradigm https://observablehq.com/@gre/introduction-to-functional-ren... https://observablehq.com/@redblobgames/delaunator https://observablehq.com/@redblobgames/delaunator https://observablehq.com/@larsvers/hexgrid-maps-with-d3-hexgrid https://observablehq.com/@larsvers/hexgrid-maps-with-d3-hexg... https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/rotating-geometry https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/rotating-geometry https://observablehq.com/@stwind/how-raymarching-works https://observablehq.com/@stwind/how-raymarching-works https://observablehq.com/@fil/modified-stereographic-projections https://observablehq.com/@fil/modified-stereographic-project... https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/tissots-indicatrices-on-a-spherical-fibonacci-lattice https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/tissots-indicatrices-on-a... https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/manipulating-flat-arrays https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/manipulating-flat-arrays

fnord77 7y ago
On the iphone, safari tries to open these links in mail. Unescaped @ symbols are invalid for URL paths. What does it say about a company who can't even get URLs right?
- charrondev 7y ago
  They open fine on my iPhone for what it’s worth. iOS 12.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't post shallow dismissals and please don't be snarky. These are two of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Your comment would be just fine without that last sentence.
- erik_seaberg 7y ago
  https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt allows URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ] hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty path-abempty = *( "/" segment ) segment = *pchar pchar = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" / "@" and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt originally said > Within the <path> and <searchpart> components, "/", ";", "?" are reserved.
jdlshore 7y ago
What a generous comment! I'm going to check these out. Thanks for sharing.
jacobolus 7y ago
Here’s a list of some of @Fil’s favorites https://observablehq.com/@fil/cool-observable-notebooks https://observablehq.com/@fil/cool-observable-notebooks Here are some more of mine: https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/diy-hillshade https://observablehq.com/@awoodruff/diy-hillshade https://observablehq.com/@harrystevens/mapping-gridded-data-with-a-voronoi-diagram https://observablehq.com/@harrystevens/mapping-gridded-data-... https://observablehq.com/@ehouais/korolev-crater https://observablehq.com/@ehouais/korolev-crater https://observablehq.com/@vorth/regular-polygon-algebra-geometry https://observablehq.com/@vorth/regular-polygon-algebra-geom... https://observablehq.com/@grtlr/stippling-of-2d-scalar-fields https://observablehq.com/@grtlr/stippling-of-2d-scalar-field... https://observablehq.com/@mootari/bulge-illusion https://observablehq.com/@mootari/bulge-illusion https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/octree-color-quantization https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/octree-color-quantization https://observablehq.com/@bryangingechen/lattice-reduction https://observablehq.com/@bryangingechen/lattice-reduction https://observablehq.com/@robstelling/t-sne_en https://observablehq.com/@robstelling/t-sne_en https://observablehq.com/@tophtucker/inferring-chart-type-from-autocorrelation-and-other-evils https://observablehq.com/@tophtucker/inferring-chart-type-fr... https://observablehq.com/@vorth/exploring-4d-quaternion-rotations https://observablehq.com/@vorth/exploring-4d-quaternion-rota... https://observablehq.com/@sethpipho/fractal-tree https://observablehq.com/@sethpipho/fractal-tree https://observablehq.com/@esperanc/sketchable-vector-fields https://observablehq.com/@esperanc/sketchable-vector-fields https://observablehq.com/@jheer/barnes-hut-approximation-error https://observablehq.com/@jheer/barnes-hut-approximation-err... https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/gooey-halftone-svg-gradients https://observablehq.com/@lemonnish/gooey-halftone-svg-gradi...