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D3.js Reviews & Product Details

D3 (or D3.js) is a free, open-source JavaScript library for visualizing data. Its low-level approach built on web standards offers unparalleled flexibility in authoring dynamic, data-driven graphics. For more than a decade D3 has powered groundbreaking and award-winning visualizations, become a foundational building block of higher-level chart libraries, and fostered a vibrant community of data practitioners around the world. D3 “slingshotted the field into growth, diversification and creativity that has been unprecedented” and “changed how millions of data visualizations are created across newsrooms, websites, and personal portfolios,” remarked the Information is Beautiful 2022 Test of Time Award. The IEEE VIS 2021 Test of Time Award noted, “By creating a framework that was compelling and easy for web developers to use to author interactive visualizations, the authors have undeniably helped to bring data visualization to the mainstream. [D3] is a cornerstone contribution to this conference specifically and more generally to the success of our field as a whole.” D3 was created by Mike Bostock in 2011. Mike co-authored the D3 paper with Jeff Heer and Vadim Ogievetsky at Stanford. Jason Davies made major contributions to D3 from 2011 to 2013, most notably to D3’s geographic projection system. Philippe Rivière has been a major contributor to D3 and its documentation since 2016. Over the years, countless kind individuals have contributed to D3 by sharing code and ideas, by teaching and answering questions, and by bringing people together to further the practice of visualization. Mike and Philippe now maintain D3 and Observable Plot at Observable.

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Phuong B.

Software Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/27/2021

"D3.js for Data Visualization"

4.5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

- Wide variety of visualization collections.

- It is very easy to customize using D3.js. Animations, Interactivity, and data-driven plots make it a great framework to use.

- JSON and CSV, all formats are integrable and converted to have data flexibility in D3.js.

- Mostly heat maps, transitions, and effects are achieved using D3.js.

- Easy to customize existing visualization collections and add extended functionality.

- It takes some learning curve, but after that, it's easy to reuse across multiple similar problems with little changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

- Documentation can be improved a little more.

- Requires web development experience.

- Hard to code, not a kids play toy.

- More innovative visualization charts can be added.

- Also, the development community to answer questions and more educational videos to make our learning path easier.

- Has a steep initial learning curve.

- It is slow when dealing with really large datasets.

- Not great for making maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering D3.js:

D3.js is appropriate when you have a pre-requisite knowledge of JavaScript.

One must find alternatives if they don't have prior experience with JS.

It is great for visualizing with medium and small size datasets.

It's also great for prototyping visualizations quickly and sharing on the web so others can view them without having to install any software on their machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is D3.js solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use D3js for all my data visualization problems and cases. I use it more often than other data visualization tools because of the ease and flexibility of the tool. Business problems that are addressed are data visualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raj T.

Product Designer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/27/2021

"One of the best data visualization libraries for web"

4/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

The user experience on the website is good. The examples are detailed and easy to understand. The default transitions are also good. The level of control and customization is pretty decent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

The support for ReactJS is missing. Also, the options to customize the colour palette are not the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering D3.js:

D3 is one of the most popular data visualization libraries on the web. It is currently not optimized for React but either way you can not go wrong with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is D3.js solving and how is that benefiting you?

We frequently use D3js in building a dashboard for our web application. It helps visualize the data easily and maintain the focus on the business needs without wasting a lot of time on the implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nhan T.

Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/26/2021

"I'm using d3 to make the visualize chart to show my customer business"

4.5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

It seems to base on canvas and a lot of examples to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

Not sure which reason I dislike it, I can say that one thing is I need to write too much code. I hope it will more simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

G V.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/18/2021

"Best library for Analytics and very responsive"

4.5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

The variety of graphs are wide and very easy to integrate and gives very responsive web and mobile graphs, keep going guys !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

Nothing like that everything is great as of now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering D3.js:

Highly Recommended Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is D3.js solving and how is that benefiting you?

I had to display network usage details in my application and i used D3js to display complete graphical representation of data and the customisation is really easy and they got really great options to customise the graphs and very easy to integrate and maintain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vijay D.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/27/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"I have around 9 years of experiance in frontend technologies"

4.5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

Simple and easy for data driven development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

Need some extra knowledge related to understand d3js code not like high-charts import and use only few tricks knowing is fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex P.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/18/2021

"D3.js Review"

5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

flexibility, easy to learn, clean codebase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

working code examples, snippets, tutorials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael S.

Project Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/1/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Data-Driven Documents with JavaScript: D3js"

5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

From the Commandline or IDE (atom, vim, emacs, intelliJ, eclipse, vscode...) you can use your code to write beautiful visualizations of your data in the browser(DOM). You could style, transform and add dynamics to them. Over Scalable Vector Graphics, svg the visualizations can be represented as text/grafix, diagrams or charts. It's JS so formats are yours (eg JSON ) also data is yours so choose your database/lake. The api has the math, physics, logics, time, geographcis, stars, clouds ...at your fingertips.

Use it:

Just for fun

Pimp Website

Pimp Presentation, yes also Business Presentations

Visualize math and the like

animate and visualize all the above including text

do all the above freestyler and rock the web

What struck me first was this demo

https://scriptonofficial.github.io/3d-shader-image-transition/

Hint:

3D experience like Blender, Photosphop, Package Design might be helpful

Scala, Python, Java and pure zshell or node might fuel your imagination Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

Your hunger for much more RAM/Processors will grow in 3 Dimensions from now on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering D3.js:

Play with it and have some water near you, you might not be able to take your eyes off the screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is D3.js solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business Presentations, Web and Video.

It is v*e*r*y flexible and brings back the physics (advanced) chemistry to envision new designs.

People want more once they saw it live.

Fade in a mechanical project, zoom around, enlarge and add sound and animate it, zoom in and see the drive shaft moving .... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/26/2021

"Nice data rendered"

5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

The library its pretty big, allows you to to a lot of stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

The docs tend to be very confusing and not easy to find stuff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/11/2021

"Quick to use"

5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

Visuals in good standards! The library is very easy to plug-in and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

I feel that the GUI can be more user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brian S.

Web Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/13/2019

"D3js is the most amazing thing you'll see on the web. "

5/5

What do you like best about D3.js?

D3 is a collection of breath-taking charts you can apply to your data to not only to visualize but to also captivate. It is a living piece of art. The live demos are unbelievable, they show that there are not limits to what you can do with the library and javascript as long as you're creative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about D3.js?

D3 charts are more difficult to implement in a project as compared to other javascript chart libraries but once you learn how to, the results are impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.