This is a fork of Mike Bostock's Line Transition.
This fork was originally intended to showcase a principle of using padding between the x and y axis. This is a concept I've seen covered over and over again when dealing with non-zero minimum value charts (see example).
I also found it interesting to update both the line and the x axis. It should be noted that this was not the intent of the line transition example, seeing that the line was treated as a queue, pushing and popping from the front and back of the data. It talked on how to prevent odd visual behavior of the path when those changes occur, nothing more or less.
That being said, the visual change to the axis was a hack (see x_axis_scale) to just better understand how useful a constant, fast linear change effects my comprehension of the data.
So far, my personal opinion is that when dealing with updating data similar to this, it is best to spend most of your no