Observable Notebooks
The shortest path from idea to live code
Observable Notebooks is a browser-based JavaScript notebook environment designed for data exploration, visualization, and prototyping. It supports literate programming with Markdown, SQL, and JavaScript, and connects to databases like BigQuery, Snowflake, and DuckDB. Teams can collaborate in real-time with multiplayer editing, version history, and forking, then embed or export notebooks for production use.
Users write reactive JavaScript, SQL, and Markdown cells in a browser-based notebook that automatically re-runs when inputs change, with built-in libraries and database connectors available out of the box.
data analysts, data scientists, and developers working on data visualization and exploration
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Observable
Founders
- Yao Yue
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