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Thanks for the recommendations! Did you mean something specific when you referred to "Bostock's notes", or did you just mean his various blog posts and papers?

• apathy 10y ago
  Mostly those, but there are some old conference papers and IEEE transactions (if memory serves) that are more explicit. I'll look them up when I have a block of time free.
• apathy 10y ago
  http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/d3 http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/d3 Turns out Bostock explicitly avoided devising Yet Another Grammar of Graphics in favor of selection and transformation operators. Which, as it happens, is a very sparse but expressive grammar anyways (cf dplyr and other corners of the Hadleyverse). Nonetheless, I misrepresented his idea of maximizing expressivity by minimizing grammatical constraints. The IEEE paper is even better than I remembered. It's just as good today as it was when he first submitted it.