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Data Visualization with d3.js

By : Swizec Teller
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Data Visualization with d3.js

By: Swizec Teller

Overview of this book

<p>d3.js. provides a platform that help you create your own beautiful visualization and bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. It emphasis on web standards that will fully utilize the capabilities of your web browser.</p> <p>Data Visualization with d3.js walks you through 20 examples in great detail. You can finally stop struggling to piece together examples you've found online. With this book in hand, you will learn enough of the core concepts to conceive of and build your own visualizations from scratch.</p> <p>The book begins with the basics of putting lines on the screen, and builds on this foundation all the way to creating interactive animated visualizations using d3.js layouts.</p> <p>You will learn how to use d3.js to manipulate vector graphics with SVG, layout with HTML, and styling with CSS. You'll take a look at the basics of functional programming and using data structures effectively – everything from handling time to doing geographic projections. The book will also help make your visualizations interactive and teach you how automated layouts really work.</p> <p>Data Visualization with d3.js will unveil the mystery behind all those beautiful examples you've been admiring.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary


We dipped our toes into the design side of things, looked at some great examples, and tried to learn how they work. As a non-designer, that's how I approach any new visualization I want to create—look at a bunch of examples and figure out what works on my dataset.

Then it's experimentation, experimentation, and playing around until I find something that works.

For a deeper look at designing visualizations, I suggest reading books devoted to the subject. Data Visualization: a successful design process, Andy Kirk and his blog Visualizing Data are a good start. I haven't read the book, but the blog helped me a lot during this chapter.

Another good resource is Visualize This, Nathan Yau. The first few chapters are about design; the rest are about using R—a language for statistical analysis. It would also be good to read Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, Scott Murray.