Thinking with Data Ergonomically (with Observable)

UNAVCO Geodetic Data Services is building software more quickly than ever for the web to support the geoscience community. We are writing interactive Observable notebooks in a collaborative manner that allows us to take a fun idea and produce a visualization or frontend interface for our web services in hours or days, rather than weeks and months. You will see examples of interactive maps and graphical user interfaces for searching archival GNSS files, meteorological data, and campaigns. Explore how we easily integrated our own search tools with those of Native Land to support simple and accurate indigenous territory acknowledgements. We have made pedagogical tools aimed at K-12 and higher education for exploring velocity files, geoid height calculations, and even the history of our station network development since the very beginning. Furthermore, we will show you interactive visualizations that depict the topology of our network sensitivity for earthquakes using GNSS stations. "Helping everyone make sense of the world with data, together," is the way the software and vibrant community called Observable describes its own mission. This platform for rapidly developing frontend applications to serve the scientific community that UNAVCO supports simply has less friction to communicating ideas with code than anything we've seen before. Don't take our word for it, though. We invite you to explore what we have built and published with Observable so that you may poke, prod, modify and build upon what you find. Leave behind tedious developer environments and don't let technical barriers prevent team members from thinking with data to make big decisions together. The ergonomics of frontend development is changing. We could not be more excited for the impact that will have in the scientific community, education, and anyone who depends on our data.