D3 3.0 released

[Zikes]

I just started a new job in July, and in one of my first projects I learned and applied D3 to create a series of interactive charts for a massive dataset my office had recently received.

After presenting, my boss, his boss, and his boss all came by my desk to express how impressed they were with the work, and a couple of weeks later I received an Associate of the Quarter award, which I directly attribute to what I was able to do using D3.

I'm very grateful for all the work you've done on this Mike, and I look forward to exploring all of the new features in this latest release.

[Gmo]

I would like to second this. I also did a project using d3 this year, and everybody I've shown it to has been really impressed, especially in "management".

It took a bit of investment from my side (i.e. I did not book all the hours) but I knew that the return on it would be awesome, and it is. And that's even though I hadn't made a single line of javascript for over 10 years.

So thank you mbostock !

[mbostock]

Thank you!

[briandoll]

D3 is beautiful and accessible, but more importantly I think it re-frames our approach to visualizing data, rather than jamming data into pre-made charts.

The D3 wiki documentation is incredible. I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I'm going to read through the docs over the holidays.

You can check out the wiki and browse it locally: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/_access

[mbostock]

Thanks! I'm still writing some documentation for the new methods in 3.0 (particularly d3.geo.projection and d3.xhr), so please `git pull` periodically to check for updates.

[OliverM]

I love the great taste D3 displays in its design. Some real thought has been given to how the user interacts with the library and the conventions he or she needs to convert data to graphics. Fantastic stuff.

[joey_muller]

Thank you, Mike, for continuing to push ahead with D3. It's nice to see so many folks are using -- and benefiting from -- it!

[ndefinite]

The mapping plugins are truly impressive but, personally, I'm looking forward to making use of the hexbin plugin and testing out the new transition chaining.

As always, nice work!

[NelsonMinar]

I did a quickie hexbin / d3.geo map of my Twitter archive, was very easy and nice quick results. Being able to try out various projections and have everything else just work was a really nice experience.

[shaydoc]

D3 is so good, the work of mbostock is quite brilliant, I am just starting out with d3 but I hope to really do some good stuff with it over the coming year and beyond!

[indubitably]

The best thing about d3, to me, is that it feels so natural on the web. It's really built with standards, instead of against them.

Thanks to the d3 community and especially to Mike for making an awesome tool and working hard to make the documentation useful.

[dirtyaura]

Great work Mike, chained transitions is super important for fine tuning the user experience and it's nice to have better support for requests, although we use jQuery for them at the moment.

[zjonsson]

This is fantastic Mike! Thank you.

[dr_win]

a masterpiece!