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Create interactive data-driven visualizations for the web with the D3.js library
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.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Learn to use D3.js version 5 and web standards to create beautiful interactive data-driven visualizations for the web
- Bind data to DOM elements, applying different scales, color schemes and configuring smooth animated transitions for data updates
- Generate data structures and layouts for many popular chart formats
- Apply interactive behaviors to any chart
- Create thematic maps based on GIS data using different geographical projections with interactive behaviors
- Load, parse and transform data from JSON and CSV formats
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All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
<p>See results in console log.</p>
<div id="section">
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>
</div>
<p>Paragraph 3</p>
Following is what you need for this book: The book is intended for web developers, web designers, data scientists, artists, and any developer who wish to create interactive data visualization for the Web using D3. The book assumes basic knowledge of HTML, CSs, and JavaScript.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-11).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 11 | D3, version 5.9.2 or later | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android |
| 1 to 11 | Any modern browser that supports SVG | |
| and ES2016: Edge, Chrome, Safari, Firefox | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android | |
| 1 to 11 | Any code editor, for example Adobe | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android |
| Brackets, PHStorm, WebStorm, Visual Studio | ||
| Code, TextWrangler, Sublime Text | ||
| 11 | MapShaper (online) | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android |
| 11 | TopoJSON | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android |
| 11 | Versor D3 plugin | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android |
| 11 | Inertia D3 plugin | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android |
| 1 to 11 | Any Web Server (example: npm | Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, Cydia, Android |
| http-server) |
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Helder da Rocha teaches, writes and develops applications with Java and Web technologies since 1995. In 1996 he wrote one of the first books in Portuguese about HTML and JavaScript, and since then he created hundreds of presentations, tutorials, and course materials on Java, Java EE, programming tools, patterns, techniques, methodologies, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, XML and related technologies, data visualization, Arduino and Internet of Things. He holds a masters degree in Computer Science. He also has a background in the visual arts and design and has some of his artwork in permanent museum exhibits. He lives in Brazil, where he works as an independent consultant, developer and instructor and a frequent speaker at technological events.
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