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. * Group By * Sorted

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/