I came across this fantastic JavaScript library for DOM manipulation in 2011, at that time it was still fairly new in the visualization space and I picked it up for a couple of visualizations moving away from prefuse and other thick client embeded libraries. Now 5 years later, it matured massively and got adopted at large scale. Just recently the version 4.0 was releasey. One of the main features certainly the modularit
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I will revisit some of the old visualizations I created and also try to convert some newer ideas into visualizations. Now tinkering and playing became much easier, I recommend JSFiddle if you want to avoid local web server setup, though JSFiddle does not support version 4.0 yet (at the time of writing this).
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You also can run your visualization with the good old GitHub Gist and the bl.ocks site or the browser plugins.
I am working with D3 again after experimenting with visualization tools like Tableau and realizing quickly that outstanding visualizations only can be created with the power of D3, though you have to work with sourcecode and understand whats going on under the hood of a modern web browser. Please dont forget D3 is released under the BSD license !
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