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by ryan-allen 2922 days ago
I had a similar experience, off the shelf didn't do what the customer wanted, so I delved into D3, which to be fair has the strangest API on first glance.

After learning how it works, and more importantly why, it's more obvious why it's useful. It's a chart building toolkit, not a chart builder, and you can dream up all sorts of interesting things with it.

The upside is that the author has a huge library of examples you can build from [0]. It's a great tool!

[0] https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/gallery