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### Background

When I first saw D3, I was impressed and inspired about the concept of data-driven documents. Real-time, interactive, data-rich digital publications. A magic newspaper would surely use some form of this to always stay up-to-date.

Having expectations is almost always a mistake.  I brought expectations to D3.  Primarily, that it would be high-level and similar to other charting libraries.  I soon realized that it provided access to more primitive elements that can be composed to create charts, but atop a flexible library designed for creative use.

I'm convinced the separation of content and form is and will increasingly manifest as data and projection.  Underlying data and layer of standard-ish data structures (think .geojson.. pretty much any defined schema), is consumed and processed in units of its own.

Transactional - is the most detailed level of data. This is a single row in a database table.

Summary - summarized data.  This is generically known as [map-reduce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce).
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### Idea

To have a bootstrap toolbar that supports the use and exploration of D3 and its features.

#### References

http://www.recursion.org/d3-for-mere-mortals/

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