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Bernard Baker • Edited

I would suggest D3. I've used it from a complete newbie perspective and it's a versatile library with good documentation and examples to get started.

One area and question I threw into the web was how to use my own data. It's pretty straightforward. You simply fetch data which has the same structure as the data used in the examples, and load it in. Here's an example of me using the globe 🌎 from a D3 example.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

It does so much! I want to eventually make a dashboard with all my smart things monitored and would love to use it for that. I even used it for my grad school capstone project.

Though I never recommend it at work since it tends to be overkill, but that's what makes it great for tinkering at home haha

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Bernard Baker

Overkill. I agree to some extent. But it's extremely capable too. Smart things monitored sounds like an interesting project.

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Bernard Baker

I looked at some of the other suggestions. The visualisation techniques and libraries get better and better.