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Learn D3.js

By : Helder da Rocha
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Book Image

Learn D3.js

2 (1)
By: Helder da Rocha

Overview of this book

This book is a practical hands-on introduction to D3 (Data-driven Documents): the most popular open-source JavaScript library for creating interactive web-based data visualizations. Based entirely on open web standards, D3 provides an integrated collection of tools for efficiently binding data to graphical elements. If you have basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript you can use D3.js to create beautiful interactive web-based data visualizations. D3 is not a charting library. It doesn’t contain any pre-defined chart types, but can be used to create whatever visual representations of data you can imagine. The goal of this book is to introduce D3 and provide a learning path so that you obtain a solid understanding of its fundamental concepts, learn to use most of its modules and functions, and gain enough experience to create your own D3 visualizations. You will learn how to create bar, line, pie and scatter charts, trees, dendograms, treemaps, circle packs, chord/ribbon diagrams, sankey diagrams, animated network diagrams, and maps using different geographical projections. Fundamental concepts are explained in each chapter and then applied to a larger example in step-by-step tutorials, complete with full code, from hundreds of examples you can download and run. This book covers D3 version 5 and is based on ES2015 JavaScript.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

How to make a thematic map

You can use D3 to create maps of any place you wish, real or imaginary, using any data that contains locations expressed in spherical coordinates. There are many details to cover, so we will begin in this section with a quick step-by-step tutorial on map-making with D3, and then proceed in the sections that follow to cover the details. The files that contain the full code for the examples in this section are in the MapMaking/ folder of the GitHub repository for this chapter.

GeoJSON

GeoJSON is an open standard format (IETF RFC 7946) for geographical information systems (GIS), supported by most GIS applications, GPS software and Web-based mapping applications. Many public data portals provide geographical...