This is a good detailed guide but I think I'm missing something here. I can't quite formalize it but it has something to do with this:

> You may be wondering how we'll go about adding Axises to our graph, but here be dragons, so I'll leave that aside for the moment.

Uh, OK...having axes (and labels) is pretty integral to many charts and is pretty trivial in D3. If Angular is to replace much of the data-binding in D3, as the OP proposes, then I think there has to be less ad hoc hacking of Angular things to do what's relatively easy in D3. This reads more like a guide of how to get D3 (or rather, SVG charts) in a situation in which you cannot really use D3.