Kudos to Mike & Jason (makers of D3) (groups.google.com)

It took me less than 10 days (working less than 5 hours a day, so roughly 40 hours) to make this beautiful map, with zoom, and mouse-tracking tooltip with pie tweening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_WRQExsLc

A version of this, together with other D3 creations, will soon be put up on a site with about 6-7 million hits a day

Normally, without D3, I'd either have to settle with a terribly boring solution or commit to 100 days to pull it off from scratch (perfection has its cost)

So kudos to Mike and Jason who are making D3 richer and more interesting each day

I highly recommend D3 to all visual artists and those who are into data kinetics