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D3.js 4.x Data Visualization. Learn to visualize your data with JavaScript - Third Edition

D3.js 4.x Data Visualization. Learn to visualize your data with JavaScript - Third Edition

Aendrew Rininsland, Swizec Teller

Ebook
Want to get started with impressive interactive visualizations and implement them in your daily tasks? This book offers the perfect solution-D3.js. It has emerged as the most popular tool for data visualization.

This book will teach you how to implement the features of the latest version of D3 while writing JavaScript using the newest tools and technique

You will start by setting up the D3 environment and making your first basic bar chart. You will then build stunning SVG and Canvas-based data visualizations while writing testable, extensible code,as accurate and informative as it is visually stimulating. Step-by-step examples walk you through creating, integrating, and debugging different types of visualization and will have you building basic visualizations (such as bar, line, and scatter graphs) in no time.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered the techniques necessary to successfully visualize data and will be ready to use D3 to transform any data into an engaging and sophisticated visualization.
  • 1. Getting Started with D3, ES2015 and Node.js
  • 2. A Primer on DOM, SVG, and CSS
  • 3. D3’s shape primitives
  • 4. Making Data Useful
  • 5. Defining the User Experience - Animation and Interaction
  • 6. Hierarchical charts in D3
  • 7. Other Layouts
  • 8. D3 on the server with Canvas, Koa 2 and Node.js
  • 9. Being confident in your data visualisations
  • 10. Designing Good Visualizations
  • Title: D3.js 4.x Data Visualization. Learn to visualize your data with JavaScript - Third Edition
  • Author: Aendrew Rininsland, Swizec Teller
  • Original title: D3.js 4.x Data Visualization. Learn to visualize your data with JavaScript - Third Edition
  • ISBN: 9781787128156, 9781787128156
  • Date of issue: 2017-04-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15it
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing