Animation adds interest to data visualizations. I've used D3.js, leaflet.js, plotly, etc., to map data, but so far Tableau has been my favorite -- it's easy to learn, and can be quite flexible when it comes to showing data the way you want it.
Also, by using Tableau Prep before Tableau Desktop, the data cleaning (e.g, pivoting, joins, unions) is automated and you can always generate output csv files from every step of the data cleaning, by generating a Tableau flow file and running csv files through it.
To show how to make an animated map with Tableau, I created this step-by-step tutorial.
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