D3.js, Three.js and CSS 3D Transforms by Steve Hall.
From the post:
This week I have been having some fun thinking about how you could use D3.js and Three.js together to do some data visualization work. We’ll have to put this one in the experimental column since there is a lot more work to be done, but I was pretty pleased with the results and thought I would blog about what I have done up to this point. While there are plenty of dramatic examples of three.js used to generate 3D globes with lines shooting everywhere, I was interested in a more subtle approach to complement work in D3. I would be curious to hear about other experiments going on along the same lines. A Google search didn’t turn up much.
The following example is using D3 to generate HTML elements and SVG charts and also to store coordinate information for transitions inside data properties. The objects created using D3 are then passed into a three.js scene and animated using CSS 3D transforms (no WebGL here, this is pure DOM).
You really need to run the full demo on a large, high-res monitor.
Wicked cool!
Definitely raises the bar for data visualization!
The only downside being you will be expected to find clever 3D ways to visualize data. Way more complicated than the visualization itself.