Data Visualization Performance

1. Introduction

It's 2025 and data is the fuel of the world's economy. Visualizations have become our dashboards, our maps, our essential tools for navigating this complex landscape. Interactive charts are no longer a luxury but the expected standard. We want to explore data from every angle, to zoom, to filter, to slice and dice our way to insights. But there's a catch: as our datasets explode in size and complexity (think petabytes of interconnected information), this interactivity comes at a cost: performance.

A sluggish visualization is like a car with a sputtering engine. It might get you there eventually, but ...