Its quite difficult to get a birdseye view of a lot of interacting notebooks, so I wrote a tool that offers a live, navigable and interactive visualization of the Observable runtime graph. live: if you add/remove a cell the visualisation update. navigable: if you click a cell you are taken to the …

Beautiful! [image] tomlarkworthy: Its also useful for authors to find stray dependancies and plan refactors on complex notebook networks. Yeah I can definitely see the debugging potential (not to mention encouragement to refactor), especially in bigger notebooks

Live, interactive Observable runtime graph visualization

Show and tell

amarder July 11, 2025, 10:18am 2

Nice!

Anyone joining the Summer of Math Exposition?

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Live, interactive Observable runtime graph visualization

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