Hi everyone!
Mike just published ‘Dashboard’, in which he states:
Observable lets you import cells from other notebooks. With a little convention, you can quickly assemble (interactive!) visualizations from multiple notebooks into a CSS grid layout, say for a dashboard.
Yet none of the charts in the example appear to be responding me clicking around them with a mouse on Chrome. Is it just me? Or was Mike referring to the potential for interaction, but providing only an example of the dashboard structure?
Since starting with Observable, it’s been my goal to essentially arrive at something like a dashboard. I note that libraries like crossfilter have been designed to facilitate these sorts of interactions, though I’m still working my way up to trying them (trying to learn the basics of building out UI elements, learning how filters work, etc, etc). If anyone decides to build out a notebook modeling how these interactions between charts might work, please let me know! I’m especially interested in learning whether it’s possible to import chart ‘templates’ (like Mike did), but to point them to a different datasource than in the original notebook – that is, presuming all three chart types require data formatted in a certain way, being able to transition from a generic template to one linked to a specific dataset defined in the notebook and common to all imported charts.
Is this even possible?
