D3 is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating HTML documents based on data. D3 can help you quickly visualize your data as HTML or SVG, handle interactivity, and incorporate smooth transitions and staged animations into your pages. You can use D3 as a visualization framework (like Protovis), or you can use it to build dynamic pages (like jQuery).
D3 should work on any browser, with minimal requirements such as JavaScript and the W3C DOM API. By default D3 requires the Selectors API Level 1, but you can preload Sizzle for compatibility with older browsers. Some of the included D3 examples use additional browser features, such as SVG and CSS3 Transitions. These features are not required to use D3, but are useful for visualization! D3 is not a compatibility layer. The examples should work on Firefox, Chrome (Chromium), Safari (WebKit), Opera and IE9.
Note: Chrome has strict permissions for reading files out of the local file system. To view some of the examples locally, you will need to start a local web server. One easy way to do that is to install Tornado:
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/facebook/tornado.git
cd tornado
sudo python setup.py install
cd ../d3
We have provided a Tornado script for serving static files:
python examples
Once this is running, go to: http://0.0.0.0:8888/examples/index.html