Data module? about d3 HOT 4 CLOSED

Just to have it mentioned.... :) I'm working on a dedicated Javascript data manipulation lib, which I'm currently start using it in conjunction with D3. Maybe it's worth a look:

https://github.com/michael/data

It offers uniform data formats (such as Data.Hash, Data.Collection, Data.Graph) supports transformation (like group on a collection) and importantly it sits on top of JSON (serialization/deserialization stuff).

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Nice. I'll take a look at it! Would definitely like to make a cleaner separation between the data processing components and the visualization/selection code.

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Just made a little change to Data.js, that makes Data.Hashes (which are basically sortable hashes, having both, array and hash semantics) behave like regular arrays.

substance/data@28efd20

Now I can pass them to D3's data() function. However, I'm not sure about how safe this patch is (in terms of side-effects).

Alternatively, would you consider patching D3 in such a way, that for the data "array" it calls data.at(index) for Data.Hashes instead of data[index] as for regular arrays?

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Keeping things simple and leaving them where they are.

@michael In 2.0.0, you can extend the selection's prototype and override the behavior of the data operator, should you want to change it to be more compatible with Data.js.

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