Web-Based Visualization Part 1: The D3.js Key Concept by Stephen Thomas.
From the post:
Those of us in the user interface community often obsess over the smallest details: shifting an element one pixel to the left or finding the perfect transparency setting for our drop shadows. Such an obsession is well and good; it can lead to a superior user experience. But sometimes perhaps we should take a step back from the details. In many cases, our interfaces exist to provide understanding. If the user doesn’t understand the information, then it doesn’t matter how pretty the interface looks. Fortunately, there’s an entire science devoted to understanding information, the science of data visualization. And on the web there is one particular tool that its practitioners rely on far more than any other—the excellent D3.js library from Mick Bostock. In a series of posts, we’ll take a close look at this library and its enormous power.
Stephen disagrees with the view that D3.js is difficult to learn and sets a goal to get readers on the way to using D3.js after fifteen minutes of reading.
How did you fare?
I first saw this in a tweet by Christophe Viau.