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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

Summary

This chapter introduced a huge collection of tools for data manipulation, generation, and presentation, from six modules of the D3 library. Knowing this toolset will give you the power to organize your data in a manner that is best for creating effective visualizations. These tools are used in practically any data visualization, and you will see them in many examples throughout the book.

Most of this chapter provided an overview of each tool with brief code examples. While some of these functions may be rarely used, important features such as grouping and bins were covered in depth with practical applications.

In the next chapter, we will continue our journey through the D3.js library and learn how to generate axes that add context to your visualizations.

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