Static type checking is where you have a process that looks at how variables are being used, and then throws a wobbly if you do something weird. By this, I mean it looks at the type of each variable and uses either type annotations (bits of text defining what type a variable is when the variable itself is defined) or type inference (figuring out what the type is from how you first used it) to ensure that functions don't mutate a variable in an unexpected way. This is called static typing and is a feature built into many robust languages, such as C++ and Java. While JavaScript's dynamic typing (also shared by lots of other web languages, such as PHP and Ruby) is helpful in some ways and enables a certain style of programming, it can also be incredibly frustrating due to its ability to introduce silent errors. As we're using a transpiler to transform our JavaScript anyway (throughout the book this has been Babel, though many other transpilers...

D3.js 4.x Data Visualization - Third Edition
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D3.js 4.x Data Visualization - Third Edition
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Overview of this book
Want to get started with impressive interactive visualizations and implement them in your daily tasks? This book offers the perfect solution-D3.js. It has emerged as the most popular tool for data visualization.
This book will teach you how to implement the features of the latest version of D3 while writing JavaScript using the newest tools and technique
You will start by setting up the D3 environment and making your first basic bar chart. You will then build stunning SVG and Canvas-based data visualizations while writing testable, extensible code,as accurate and informative as it is visually stimulating. Step-by-step examples walk you through creating, integrating, and debugging different types of visualization and will have you building basic visualizations (such as bar, line, and scatter graphs) in no time.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered the techniques necessary to successfully visualize data and will be ready to use D3 to transform any data into an engaging and sophisticated visualization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Author2
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Getting Started with D3, ES2017, and Node.js
A Primer on DOM, SVG, and CSS
Shape Primitives of D3
Making Data Useful
Defining the User Experience - Animation and Interaction
Hierarchical Layouts of D3
The Other Layouts
D3 on the Server with Canvas, Koa 2, and Node.js
Having Confidence in Your Visualizations
Customer Reviews