4. Shaping Web Pages with D3 Selections
In this chapter we are going to dive in to D3 (finally!). Specifically, we’re going to cover something called selections. On the most basic level, selections are D3’s way of letting you access a web page so you can make changes to it. Selections give you the keys to the web page document so you can drive it! Remember, although D3 is an amazing tool for creating data visualizations, it doesn’t have a basic function for generating charts. Instead, it provides a bunch of ways to manipulate the contents of a web page, based on data. But it’s up to you to create the shapes and lines you need to make an intelligible data visualization.
Getting Set Up with D3
D3 is a JavaScript library, a large-ish text file ...
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