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Learn D3.js

Learn D3.js - Second Edition

By : Helder da Rocha
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Learn D3.js

Learn D3.js

By: Helder da Rocha

Overview of this book

Learn D3.js, Second Edition, is a fully updated guide to building interactive, standards-compliant data visualizations for the web using D3.js v7 and modern JavaScript. Whether you're a developer, designer, data journalist, or analyst, this book will help you master the core techniques for transforming data into compelling, meaningful visuals. Starting with fundamentals like selections, data binding, and SVG, the book progressively covers scales, axes, animations, hierarchical data, and geographical maps. Each chapter includes short examples and a hands-on project with downloadable code you can run, modify, and use in your own work. This new edition introduces improved chapter structure, updated code samples using ES2019 standards, and better formatting for readability. Chapters were completely rewritten to focus on the most important topics first, with suggested exercises after each section, complete with commented solutions and online step-by-step tutorials. All code snippets are drawn from real-world D3 data visualization projects available in a GitHub repository, which also includes bonus content on integrating D3 into applications and migrating legacy code. With its practical approach, this book remains one of the most respected resources for learning D3.js and creating interactive data visualizations with JavaScript.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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Part 1: Getting Started with D3
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Chapter 2: Essential JavaScript for D3 (Online)
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Chapter 3: Essential SVG for D3 (Online)
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Part 2: Core D3
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Part 3: Advanced D3

Loading and Parsing Data

Most of the data used in your D3 visualizations will probably be loaded from external sources. This chapter explores tools provided by D3 that you can use to asynchronously load and parse data, converting it to a native format that can be manipulated in JavaScript and used in a web-based data visualization.

JSON and XML sources have a hierarchical structure. Once loaded, they can be parsed using native code, but D3 provides functions to efficiently load and parse them in a single step, returning JavaScript promises. These functions are part of the d3-fetch module, which also provides asynchronous loaders and parsers for CSV, plain text, and binary data.

If you need more control, D3 provides additional support for tabular formats in the d3-dsv module, with configurable parsers and formatters to convert flat tabular data from strings to arrays and vice versa.

Loading and parsing data is an essential skill. To get the most out of this chapter, load and...

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