I think I should have written more about this in the blog post. Creating data viz with d3.js is basically as low level as it's going to get for drawing charts i

I think I should have written more about this in the blog post. Creating data viz with d3.js is basically as low level as it's going to get for drawing charts in the browser. There are many higher level libs (most of which utilize d3.js functions) that make it easier, at the expense of customizability. For anyone who just wants a standard chart, there are tons of awesome libraries out there. D3.js hasn't changed radically in the past ~8 years, mostly because it doesn't need to. The SVG API has been fairly stable (at least as far as what has been implemented across browsers), and the basics of visualizing data are static (eg. how to convert data values to physical values using scales.