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D3.js 4.x Data Visualization - Third Edition

By : Aendrew Rininsland, Teller
Book Image

D3.js 4.x Data Visualization - Third Edition

By: Aendrew Rininsland, Teller

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 (11 chapters)
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Shape Primitives of D3

Preface

Welcome to D3.js 4.x Data Visualization, Third Edition. Over the course of this book, you'll learn the basics of one of the world's most ubiquitous and powerful data visualization libraries, but we don't stop there. By the end of our time together, you'll have all the skills you need to become a total D3 ninja, and will be able to do everything from build visualizations from scratch straight through to using it on the server and writing automated tests. If you haven't leveled up your JavaScript skills in a while, you're in for a treat--this book endeavors to use the latest features currently being added to the language, all the while explaining why they're cool and how they differ from "old school" JavaScript.