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Thanks! We're big Observable fans, and you can find quite a few examples here: https://observablehq.com/search?query=mapd and https://observablehq.com/search?query=omnisci. But imagine we could do something deeper, any thoughts?

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Mike Bostock's notebook here is a great starting point, showing how to import and use mapd-connector [1] in an Observable notebook and then feed its data into a vega-lite chart:

https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/hello-mapd-connector

[1]: The Javascript client for connecting to OmniSci, https://github.com/omnisci/mapd-connector

This is a good point. There are lots of interesting possibilities with Observable, especially using the OmniSciDB open-source project for analyses that people intentionally do want to share

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