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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)

ES6, TypeScript, and External D3.js Libraries

In this final chapter, we're going to look into a couple of usages of D3 not directly related to the main D3 provided APIs. We're going to discuss the following subjects:

  • D3 and ES6: ES6, also called ECMAScript 6 or ECMAScript 2015, is the latest version of the JavaScript language used in browsers and tools such as Node.js. ES6 has a number of features that can make working with D3 easier, but also a number of items you need to take into account, when working with D3 and ES6.
  • D3 and TypeScript: Besides ES6, a very popular language for web development is TypeScript. The TypeScript language adds types to JavaScript, which makes development easier and prevents a number of common runtime errors. For instance, the popular Angular 2 framework uses TypeScript as its main programming language. Working with D3 and TypeScript provides a lot of features, but also a number...