5. Data-Joins: Enter
Data-joins are the bread and butter of D3. If you take one thing away from this book, make it understanding how data-joins work and how to use them. Remember that D3 has no basic function for producing charts. Instead, it uses data-joins. This chapter covers how to use data-joins to add elements to a webpage and then manipulate them with data.
What Are Data-Joins?
As the name suggests, data-joins involve joining data with something. That something is an element or a number of elements on a web page—<rect>s, <circles>s, <div>s... all the usual suspects. More specifically, that something is a D3 selection of those elements.
Before we get into all of that, let’s take a few steps back. Forget about D3 for a second. Now, imagine ...
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