You might be, it depends on the application. That's exactly what's going in in this NY Times visualization: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/po

You might be, it depends on the application. That's exactly what's going in in this NY Times visualization: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/2013-budget-proposal-graphic.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/20... Though it uses d3 rather than Backbone or Ember.