D3 data-driven documents
D3, which stands for data-driven documents, is an open source JavaScript library used to create interactive web-based data visualizations. It provides a mechanism that connects arbitrary data to document elements, allowing their appearance and behavior to be driven by the data. Created by Mike Bostock, Jeff Heer, and Vadim Ogievetsky in 2001, it's currently used in hundreds of thousands of websites and is one of the most popular JavaScript data visualization libraries in the world.
If you have ever used interactive data applications from large news web portals such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Guardian, there is a great probability that it was a D3 application. You may have also used one of the ...
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