Master D3, Today’s Most Powerful Tool for Visualizing Data on the Web
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Data-driven graphics are everywhere these days, from websites and mobile apps to interactive journalism and high-end presentations. Using D3, you can create graphics that are visually stunning and powerfully effective. Visual Storytelling with D3 is a hands-on, full-color tutorial that teaches you to design charts and data visualizations to tell your story quickly and intuitively, and that shows you how to wield the powerful D3 JavaScript library.
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Drawing on his extensive experience as a professional graphic artist, writer, and programmer, Ritchie S. King walks you through a complete sample project—from conception through data selection and design. Step by step, you’ll build your skills, mastering increasingly sophisticated graphical forms and techniques. If you know a little HTML and CSS, you have all the technical background you’ll need to master D3.
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This tutorial is for web designers creating graphics-driven sites, services, tools, or dashboards; online journalists who want to visualize their content; researchers seeking to communicate their results more intuitively; marketers aiming to deepen their connections with customers; and for any data visualization enthusiast.
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Coverage includes
- Identifying a data-driven story and telling it visually
- Creating and manipulating beautiful graphical elements with SVG
- Shaping web pages with D3
- Structuring data so D3 can easily visualize it
- Using D3’s data joins to connect your data to the graphical elements on a web page
- Sizing and scaling charts, and adding axes to them
- Loading and filtering data from external standalone datasets
- Animating your charts with D3’s transitions
- Adding interactivity to visualizations, including a play button that cycles through different views of your data
- Finding D3 resources and getting involved in the thriving online D3 community
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About the Website
All of this book’s examples are available at ritchiesking.com/book, along with video tutorials, updates, supporting material, and even more examples, as they become available.
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