The Future of Data Visualization on the Web

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Claims that modern web visualization moves heavy work client-side and that most practical dashboards use SVG has a full DOM and JavaScript for interactivity, with canvas for high-frequency IoT when thousands of points per second would explode SVG. Cites D3 for custom bleeding‑edge work, Chartist for responsive one‑line charts, Power BI embedding and HoloLens Mixed Reality showing charts on planes, and examples like a Hawaii traffic spike on Pornhub and Hans Rosling’s poverty animation moving from ~85% to ~12%. SVG animation lacks full IE/Edge support.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:58Server-side generators
3. 22:53Storytelling
4. 27:51Mixing multiple chart types
5. 41:27Resources

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