Who This Book Is For

Whether you are new to data and data visualization, a seasoned data scientist, or a computer graphics specialist, this book will provide you with the skills you need to create web-based and interactive data visualizations. This book assumes some knowledge of coding and in particular, experience coding in JavaScript.

What You Will Learn

In Detail

This book will take you through all the concepts of D3.js starting with the most basic ones and progressively building on them in each chapter to expand your knowledge of D3.js.

Starting with obtaining D3.js and creating simple data bindings to non-graphical HTML elements, you will then master the creation of graphical elements from data. You'll discover how to combine those elements into simple visualizations such as bar, line, and scatter charts, as well as more elaborate visualizations such as network diagrams, Sankey diagrams, maps, and choreopleths.

Using practical examples provided, you will quickly get to grips with the features of D3.js and use this learning to create your own spectacular data visualizations with D3.js.

Style and approach

This book uses a practical, step-by-step approach that builds iteratively, starting with the basic concepts right through to mastery of the technology. Each concept is demonstrated using code examples that are interactively available online (and can also be run locally), and each chapter builds upon the concepts covered in the previous chapter,with succinct explanations of what the code does and how it fits into the bigger picture.