chrtze

Thanks, Felix ;)

We wanted to focus more on tools and plugins, not on visualization examples because many resources for that already exist.

Sorry, haven't seen that one.

I like the code examples for every library presented in the article.

D3 implements many other features like scales and stuff. The two just have some parts in common when it comes to DOM-manipulations and selections.

okay, didnt think of that solution! thx!

Yes you can. Both libraries are based on document.querySelectorAll which has the same selectors as you know them from CSS.

That's true. I am still often missing the shorthand versions if jQuery when working with d3. For example doing something like this:

$('.foo').append('<div class="bar" data-selected="true"/>');

in d3 I have to go the long way:

d3.select('.foo') .append('div') .classed('bar', true) .attr('data-selected', true);

I have recently worked a lot with this plugin https://github.com/gka/d3-jetpack which includes some very nice helper functions!

From my perspective I would rather have $.select() instead of $() because it makes more clear what this function actually does.

There is a similar project on this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/06...