My D3 strategy - Find the type of visualization I want to make on http://bl.ocks.org/ http://bl.ocks.org/. Start with that code, understand the steps taken to

My D3 strategy - Find the type of visualization I want to make on http://bl.ocks.org/ http://bl.ocks.org/. Start with that code, understand the steps taken to build it, then tweak each step / the data source until I have what I want. Works fairly well and helps you learn the library, without having to roll everything from scratch.