--- # https://vitepress.dev/reference/default-theme-home-page layout: home titleTemplate: "The JavaScript library for bespoke data visualization" head: - - link - rel: canonical href: https://d3js.org - - meta - name: title content: D3 - - meta - name: description content: The JavaScript library for bespoke data visualization hero: name: "D3" text: "The JavaScript library for bespoke data visualization" tagline: Create custom dynamic visualizations with unparalleled flexibility image: src: /logo.svg alt: D3 actions: - theme: brand text: Get started link: /getting-started - theme: alt text: What is D3? link: /what-is-d3 - theme: alt text: Examples link: https://observablehq.com/@d3/gallery?utm_source=d3js-org&utm_medium=hero&utm_campaign=try-observable features: - title: Selections and transitions details: Create, update, and animate the DOM based on data without the overhead of a virtual DOM. link: /d3-selection - title: Scales and axes details: Encode abstract data into visual values such as position, size, and color. Explain position encodings with axes. link: /d3-scale - title: Shapes details: Render arcs, areas, curves, lines, links, pies, stacks, symbols… and any geometric primitive you might need to visualize data. link: /d3-shape - title: Interactions details: Facilitate exploration with reusable interactive behaviors, including panning, zooming, brushing, and dragging. link: /d3-brush - title: Layouts details: Treemaps, trees, force-directed graphs, Voronoi, contours, chords, circle-packing… a library of layout algorithms at the ready. link: /d3-hierarchy - title: Geographic maps details: More spherical projections than you can shake a stick at, with arbitrary aspects, adaptive sampling, and flexible clipping. link: /d3-geo - title: … and much more! details: CSV parsing, localized date parsing and formatting, color spaces, calendar math, statistics, and can I stop listing features now? link: /d3-array - title: Powering Observable Plot details: The D3 team also builds Observable Plot, a high-level API for quick charts built on top of D3. link: https://observablehq.com/plot?utm_source=d3js-org&utm_medium=features&utm_campaign=try-observable linkText: Try Observable Plot rel: external - title: Built by Observable details: D3 is developed by Observable, the platform for collaborative data analysis. link: https://observablehq.com?utm_source=d3js-org&utm_medium=features&utm_campaign=try-observable linkText: Visit Observable rel: external ---