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D3 Selection Exploration

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Last edited Feb 6, 2023
Created on Feb 5, 2023
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An animated sine wave demonstrates D3 selections and the data-join pattern. The visualization generates circles and a connecting line path from computed trigonometric data, with the circle count varying over time. Using D3's `selectAll` and `join`, the example automatically handles enter, update, and exit states as data changes each frame. The code relies on `d3.select`, `d3.range`, and `d3.line` within an SVG rendering, updating at 60 frames per second via `setInterval`.

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Exploring Selection in D3

Notes :

  1. select function lets you create d3 selections using a selector string where you can select elements that are already on the page.

  2. selectAll :

  • svg.selectAll('circle')
  • It makes a d3 selection that contains all circles that exist within that svg.
  1. In this example we see that d3.join has done the 'enter' ,'update' and 'exit' function internal work for us.