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Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick Zhu
Book Image

Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick Zhu

Overview of this book

Master D3.js and create amazing visualizations with the Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook. Written by professional data engineer Nick Zhu, this D3.js cookbook features over 65 recipes. ? Solve real-world visualization problems using D3.js practical recipes ? Understand D3 fundamentals ? Includes illustrations, ready-to-go code samples and pre-built chart recipes
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Creating simple shapes


In this recipe, we will explore a few simple built-in SVG shape formulas and their attributes. These simple shapes are quite easy to generate and are usually created manually using D3 when necessary. Though these simple shapes are not the most useful shape generator to know when working with D3, occasionally, they could be handy when drawing peripheral shapes in your visualization project.

Getting ready

Open your local copy of the following file in your web browser:

https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook-v2/blob/master/src/chapter7/simple-shapes.html

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will draw four different shapes in four different colors using native SVG shape elements:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
    var width = 600, 
        height = 500; 
 
    var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg"); 
 
    svg.attr("height", height) 
        .attr("width", width);     
 
    svg.append("line") // <-A 
       ...