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Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook

By : Nick Zhu
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Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook

By: Nick Zhu

Overview of this book

D3.js is a JavaScript library designed to display digital data in dynamic graphical form. It helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3 allows great control over the final visual result, and it is the hottest and most powerful web-based data visualization technology on the market today. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" is packed with practical recipes to help you learn every aspect of data visualization with D3. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" is designed to provide you with all the guidance you need to get to grips with data visualization with D3. With this book, you will create breathtaking data visualization with professional efficiency and precision with the help of practical recipes, illustrations, and code samples. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" starts off by touching upon data visualization and D3 basics before gradually taking you through a number of practical recipes covering a wide range of topics you need to know about D3. You will learn the fundamental concepts of data visualization, functional JavaScript, and D3 fundamentals including element selection, data binding, animation, and SVG generation. You will also learn how to leverage more advanced techniques such as custom interpolators, custom tweening, timers, the layout manager, force manipulation, and so on. This book also provides a number of pre-built chart recipes with ready-to-go sample code to help you bootstrap quickly.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


One of the most fundamental tasks that you need to perform with any data visualization project using D3 is selection. Selection helps you target certain visual elements on the page. If you are already familiar with the W3C standardized CSS selector or other similar selector APIs provided by popular JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery and Zepto.js, then you will find yourself right at home with D3's selection API. Don't worry if you haven't used selector API before, this chapter is designed to cover this topic in steps with the help of some very visual recipes; it will cover pretty much all common use cases for your data visualization needs.

Introducing selection: Selector support has been standardized by W3C so all modern web browsers have built-in support for the selector API. However the basic W3C selector API has its limitations when it comes to web development, especially in the data visualization realm. The standard W3C selector API only provides selector but not selection...