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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)

Earthquake data on a flat map

For this example, we're going to plot earthquake data on a map. This visualization will have the following features:

  1. A slider at the bottom can be used to select the year to be shown.
  2. A dropdown at the top allows you to switch between projections.
  3. A map in the center shows the projections and the earthquake data plotted on top.

An example using the Robinson projection looks like this:

This is a fairly standard projection, but D3 also comes with a number of more interesting projections. For instance, the InterruptedSinuMollweide projection renders the same information like this:

First, as we do for all the examples, we'll show you how to get the data.

Getting the data

For this example, we use two different data sources....