31:T1555,## The Observable Ambassador Program is Expanding! [

](https://observablehq.com/ambassadors) Observable Ambassadors are passionate about data exploration and visualization and actively support our community. We are actively seeking new applications to the program. Ambassador benefits include: - Special access to the Observable Team - Influence over the Observable product - Dataviz opportunities in the community - Connection and networking with other data practitioners Apply here --- ## Observable Plot 0.4.1 is now available. [

](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#040?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=plotpromo&utm_source=newsletter) Observable Plot 0.4.1. brings a plethora of new advancements. Plot can now generate helpful warnings ⚠️ for common mistakes. Area and line marks now support varying fill, stroke, title, and other channels within a series. Line and link marks now support marker options for drawing a shape such as a dot or arrowhead on each vertex. Fill and stroke mark options can now be expressed as patterns or gradients using funciri color definitions and so much more! Read the full changelog --- ## Team Templates have arrived [

](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/release-notes) Observable Templates are widely used to accelerate user workflows and allow teams to get started faster. We're enhancing those workflows by allowing Observable Teams users to specify their own notebooks as templates that can then be used to create new notebooks directly from the modal. Learn more --- ## Black History Month Challenge [

](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/blackhistorymonth2022?collection=%40observablehq%2Fobservable-blog) To honor the sacrifices, achievements, and contributions made by Black lives throughout history, we are inviting all Observable users to participate in a celebratory activity - a data visualization challenge. To participate, create a notebook that - uses data to tell a story about the Civil Rights Movement or the Black Lives Matter movement - analyzes contributions by Black data practitioners, - showcases non-data related achievements by Black lives or - directly relates to ASALH's theme for 2022: [Black Health and Wellness](https://asalh.org/black-history-themes/) For resources to get started, or learn more about the challenge, check out our announcement blog post below. Read the blog --- ## User Requested Product Improvements - **A bug was fixed in Search/Replace** to ensure that selection advances to the next occurence on replace instead of jumping back to the first occurence. Thanks @mootari for catching [#341](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback/issues/341) - **Metadata was added to Collections**, similar to what exists for notebooks, so that information like a descriptive title and a preview image will appear when shared on social media. Thanks @triptych for submitting [#246](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback/issues/246) - **A tooltip was implemented for referenced cells** to prompt users to use Ctrl-J to navigate to the cell. Thank you @hellonearthis for requesting [#125](https://github.com/observablehq/feedback/issues/125) Your feedback is a gift, so please keep sending in your requests! Visit Feedback Repository --- ## Workshops and Demos 📓
We hosted two live workshops in February. In case you couldn't join us, we've recorded the sessions. [**Working in Observable Teams**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdFvQu8GQKw) - learn how to share and add team roles, work with databases, your organization's cloud files and secrets, and more [**Exploratory Data Analysis on Observable**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAeZ3s0BaSc) - learn how to quickly explore data in the browser and create interactive data visualizations More workshops are underway. If you'd like to attend future sessions, you can join the Observable meetup group. Sign Up --- ## Observable is Hiring! We are on a mission to help everyone make sense of the world with data and are looking to build our team with open roles in both technical, and GTM functions including [SRE](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/site-reliability-ops-engineer), product management, design, developer advocacy, marketing and more! See Openings

32:[] 2f:{"title":"February 2022 - Newsletter","cells":[{"id":0,"value":"# February 2022 - Newsletter","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"},{"id":10,"value":"$31","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md"}],"files":"$W32","stdlib":"1","titling":"auto"}