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D3 Meets Drupal: Visualize Data in CMS using D3 Drupal Module

Proposed by Irina Zaks

Where will the conversation continue?
yes - mtg at 1:00 on Monday.
Notes

D3 is a Javascript library that allows a user to visualize data. 
D3 is data driven - pass data to D3, live in the browser, can be interactive, open source, active community (working, devloping, responding)
Drupal is an efficient way to store data with custom content types to hold the data (content types define how the data is stored)
There's a D3 module for Drupal that uses views to pass data to selected d3 library
We need to collaborate to share libraries.  There are five ot of the box in the module.  
Have to plan how to structure your data and getting it into Drupal.
D3 is stylable with CSS
NVD3.org - a nice site with info about D3.
To have a D3 graphic update without a page refresh, you could add an ajax layer to the graphic so it updates when the data updates.
Let's get the D3 community contributing so that we can all benefit.
If java script is turned off, a table is presented.