# Data-Driven Documents

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**D3.js** is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. **D3** helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. **D3** emphasizes web standards and combines powerful visualization components with a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation, giving you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework.

Want to learn more? [See the wiki.](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki)

For examples, [see the gallery](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery) and [mbostock’s bl.ocks](http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock).

## Good News, Everyone!

The next major release of D3, 4.0, is coming! See the [4.0 development branch](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/tree/4) and read the [new API reference](https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/4/README.md) to get ready.