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Mastering D3.js

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Mastering D3.js

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering D3.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating the client application


In the previous section, we implemented the streaming server. The server application allows other applications to send words that you can listen to from the statuses/sample endpoint from Twitter. When the server receives geotagged tweets containing the words tracked by a client, it will deliver the client a simplified version of the tweet. The server doesn't enforce what the client applications do with the tweets; the client application could just count the tweets, visualize the frequency of each term in time with a heat map, or create a network chart showing the co-occurrence of the terms.

In this section, we will implement a client application. The application will display a map showing the location of the tweets that match each term in a world map, and will display a bar chart that will display the count for each term. As we did in Chapter 6, Interaction between Charts, we will use Backbone and D3 to structure our application. A screenshot of the application...