D3 is very flexible and customizable. I'd suggest HighCharts for more cookie cutter basic charting with great API capabilities. This is an information visuali

D3 is very flexible and customizable. I'd suggest HighCharts for more cookie cutter basic charting with great API capabilities. This is an information visualization project I did for a college course (surprised it still works on heroku! Did this in 2014) http://beer-guide-data-visualization.herokuapp.com/ http://beer-guide-data-visualization.herokuapp.com/ There's a D3 JS Tree of the family and subfamilies of beers. You can click to toggle on/off elements of the tree and display the children data on the scatter plot. Hope this gives you an idea as a functional example of what is possible, even hooking together different libraries (D3 and HighCharts).