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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

Building a stacked area chart


In the Creating an area chart recipe in Chapter 8, Chart Them Up, we have explored how a basic layered area chart can be implemented using D3. In this recipe, we will build over what we have learned in the area chart recipe to implement a stacked area chart. Stacked area chart is a variation of the standard area chart in which different areas are stacked on top of each other giving your audience not only the ability to compare different data series individually but also their relationship to the total in proportion.

Getting ready

Open your local copy of the following file in your web browser:

https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook/blob/master/src/chapter9/stacked-area-chart.html.

How to do it...

This recipe is built over what we have implemented in Chapter 8, Chart Them Up, therefore in the following code example only the parts that are particularly relevant to the stacked area chart are included:

<script type="text/javascript">
function stackedAreaChart...