Mike Bostock's got some examples of charts that update without redrawing the whole thing (for example [1]) - you update the bound data and the bars/points/whate

Mike Bostock's got some examples of charts that update without redrawing the whole thing (for example [1]) - you update the bound data and the bars/points/whatever to be removed/added fall out "magically". The term you're looking for is the "data join" [2]. 1: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/path/ https://bost.ocks.org/mike/path/ 2: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d3js/d3js_data_join.htm https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d3js/d3js_data_join.htm