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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)

Interpolation

With interpolation, you can obtain intermediate values between a pair of values. The d3-interpolate module contains functions that create interpolator functions for colors, numbers, strings, arrays, and objects. The main functions are listed as follows:

Function

Description

d3.interpolateNumber(a,b)

Returns a numeric interpolator between numeric values a and b. Avoid using zero (use 1e-6 instead, whenever possible).

d3.interpolateRound(a,b)

Similar to d3.interpolateNumber(), but rounds the value to the nearest integer.

d3.interpolateString(a,b)

Returns an interpolator that finds numbers embedded in b and looks for a corresponding number in a, then creates a numeric interpolator for each one, using static parts of the string and unmatched numbers as a template.

d3.interpolateDate(a,b)

Returns a date interpolator between dates a and b...