D3 Data Visualization Library
Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information". In the end everything we do, needs to be somehow presented to the users. Fortunately, we humans are intensely visual creatures. Few of us can detect patterns among rows of numbers, but even young children can interpret bar charts, extracting meaning from those numbers’ visual representations. For that reason, data visualization is a powerful exercise and is the fastest way to communicate it to others. What is D3? D3 is a JavaScript library, which helps in manipulating documents based on data. It uses HTML, SVG and CSS to create visualizations. With D3.js, the complete capabilities of new-age browsers can be used without being constrained to a framework. Fundamentally, D3 is an elegant piece of software that facilitates generation and manipulation of web documents