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For a long time, there was no alternative to Adobe’s Flash if you wanted to create animated, dynamic or interactive visualisations. However, things have now changed: with the unforeseen dynamic that JavaScript has experienced in recent years, and with the option of representing and animating pixel graphics directly in a browser with Canvas, or even vector graphics with SVG, very powerful alternative tools are now available. Wikipedia lists almost 40 JavaScript modules for visualisation.
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Rahlf, T. (2019). Interactive Visualisation with JavaScript: Highcharts and Mapael. In: Data Visualisation with R. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28444-2_12
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