​​Recently there were a couple of threads on Twitter discussing the difficulties associated with learning d3.js. I’ve also seen this come up in many similar conversations I’ve had at meetups, conferences, workshops, mailing list threads and slack chats. While I agree that many of the difficulties are real, the threads highlight a common misconception that needs to be cleared up if we want to help people getting into data visualization.

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​​Data Driven Documents (D3.js) is a JavaScript library used to create visualizations of data using HTML, CSS, and SVG. It does this by binding data to the DOM (Document Object Model) and its elements and allowing them to transform when the data changes.

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