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Using Data to Show Product Integrations (Interactive)
Ryan Orban's Galvanize blog post introducing an interactive D3 visualization of SaaS product integrations — using network graph structure to show which tools companies use together. An early example of using graph visualization for product market analysis.
Vega — A Visualization Grammar
Vega is a declarative visualization grammar built on D3.js by Trifacta (Jeffrey Heer's group) — JSON specifications describe charts rather than imperative D3 code, making visualizations more composable and shareable. The foundation for what later became Vega-Lite and Altair.
Tributary — What We've Learned from a Year of Live Coding
EJ Fox's retrospective on a year of building Tributary — a live-coding environment for D3.js data visualization. Tributary became an important tool for learning and prototyping D3 through immediate visual feedback.
Let's Make a Map
Mike Bostock's tutorial on building geographic maps with D3.js and TopoJSON — from raw Natural Earth shapefiles to rendered SVG maps. The canonical reference for browser-based cartography in 2013.
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools
Datavisualization.ch's curated selection of data visualization tools — a 2013 reference for the ecosystem of charting libraries, mapping tools, and visualization frameworks available before the current consolidation. A snapshot of what practitioners were using.