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The idea to establish a tight association between individual data records and individual DOM elements, so that the appearance of the DOM elements can change according to the data bound to them, seems fairly unique to D3. This idea, and the particular way it is implemented, is central to D3.
D3 for the Impatient
Philipp K. Janert
In his amazing book Practical Typography, Matthew Butterick advises against the use of superscript ordinals, because they become too small to read, and suggests the use of proper ordinal characters included in some typefaces. Those characters are bigger and easier to read than the superscript letters we create using word processing software.
Clothes for Language
Antonis Tsagaris
The purpose of the Marihuana Tax Act was to control behavior, not to raise revenue.
Smoke Signals
Martin A. Lee
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