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Expert Data Visualization

By : Jos Dirksen
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Expert Data Visualization

By: Jos Dirksen

Overview of this book

Do you want to make sense of your data? Do you want to create interactive charts, data trees, info-graphics, geospatial charts, and maps efficiently? This book is your ideal choice to master interactive data visualization with D3.js V4. The book includes a number of extensive examples that to help you hone your skills with data visualization. Throughout nine chapters these examples will help you acquire a clear practical understanding of the various techniques, tools and functionality provided by D3.js. You will first setup your D3.JS development environment and learn the basic patterns needed to visualize your data. After that you will learn techniques to optimize different processes such as working with selections; animating data transitions; creating graps and charts, integrating external resources (static as well as streaming); visualizing information on maps; working with colors and scales; utilizing the different D3.js APIs; and much more. The book will also guide you through creating custom graphs and visualizations, and show you how to go from the raw data to beautiful visualizations. The extensive examples will include working with complex and realtime data streams, such as seismic data, geospatial data, scientific data, and more. Towards the end of the book, you will learn to add more functionality on top of D3.js by using it with other external libraries and integrating it with Ecmascript 6 and Typescript
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Population growth estimates using a stacked graph

For the final chart in this chapter, we're going to create a simple stacked chart, which shows the expected population growth in the US to 2060. We won't create too much interactivity or other advanced features for this graph, but will just show you how to create the following two graphs:

First, we'll create an area chart:

And then we'll use the same data to create a stacked bar chart:

In the area chart we'll show the relative population distribution over the years, and in the bar chart, we'll show the absolute population, divided into age groups.

Getting and sanitizing the data

The US Census Bureau provides a number of files related to population growth and other projections. We&apos...