Rize S. answered • 03/23/23
Senior IT Certified Trainer, IT Developer & DBA Administrator
No, Tableau did not make D3.js defunct. While Tableau and D3.js are both data visualization tools, they serve different purposes and have different strengths.
Tableau is a powerful and user-friendly tool for creating interactive dashboards and visualizations, particularly for business intelligence and data analysis use cases. It offers a range of pre-built charts and visualizations that can be easily customized and linked together in a dashboard.
D3.js, on the other hand, is a JavaScript library that provides a more flexible and customizable approach to data visualization. It allows developers to create custom visualizations using web standards like HTML, CSS, and SVG. It is particularly useful for creating complex or interactive visualizations, or for cases where a pre-built chart or visualization does not meet the specific needs of the project.
While Tableau and D3.js can be used together, they are not direct competitors or substitutes for each other. Rather, they are different tools that offer different benefits and use cases.
