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 **[Configuration Reference](./docs/configuration.md)**
 
-In addition to this configuration object, it also exposes some public methods allowing you to customize your application based on filtered data:
+In addition to this configuration object, it also exposes some public members allowing you to customize your application based on filtered data:
 
 *   **scale()** provides the horizontal scale, allowing you to retrieve bounding dates thanks to `.scale().domain()`,
 *   **filteredData()** returns an object with both `data` and `fullData` keys containing respectively bounds filtered data and full dataset.