Learning d3.js Data Visualization - Second Edition by Ændrew Rininsland,Swizec Teller PDF

Key Features

• Understand the way to top signify your information by way of constructing the proper of visualization
• Harness the ability of D3 through construction interactive and real-time data-driven net visualizations
• This booklet will supply a robust beginning in designing compelling internet visualizations with D3.js

Book Description

D3 has emerged as one of many best structures to enhance attractive, interactive visualizations over the net. we start by way of constructing a robust origin, then construct in this starting place booklet will take you thru the total global of reimagining information utilizing interactive, lively visualizations created in D3.js.

In addition to masking some of the good points of D3.js to construct a variety of visualizations, we additionally specialise in the full technique of representing information via visualizations in order that builders and people drawn to information visualization gets the full approach right.

We additionally contain chapters that discover quite a lot of visualizations via sensible use circumstances. via the tip of this ebook, you might have unlocked the secret in the back of profitable information visualizations and should be able to use D3 to remodel any info right into a extra attractive and complex visualization.

What you are going to learn

• Gain a pretty good figuring out of the typical D3 improvement idioms
• Be capable of enter information, remodel it, and output it as a visualization
• Add uncomplicated results and consumer interactions to a visualization
• Find out find out how to write simple D3 code for server utilizing Node.js
• Automate checking out visualizations utilizing Mocha
• Achieve fluency in ES2015, the main glossy model of JavaScript

About the Author

Ændrew Rininsland is a developer and journalist who has spent a lot of the final half-decade development interactive content material for newspapers reminiscent of the days, Sunday occasions, The Economist, and The mum or dad. in the course of his three years on the occasions and Sunday instances, he labored on all types of editorial initiatives, starting from obituaries of figures comparable to Nelson Mandela to high-profile data-driven investigations equivalent to The Doping Scandal, the most important leak of carrying blood attempt information in history.

A prolific open resource developer, Ændrew has published many sorts of tasks, starting from small application libraries equivalent to Doctop (which permit the construction of reside updating datasets utilizing Google doctors) to special charting instruments resembling AxisJS. he's additionally a co-maintainer of C3.js, a well-known abstraction of D3 that drastically accelerates the construction of a number of simple chart forms, and GitHub.js, a library that makes it effortless to have interaction with the GitHub API.

You can stick to him on Twitter at @aendrew and on GitHub at github.com/aendrew.

Swizec Teller writer of knowledge Visualization with d3.js, is a geek with a hat. Founding his first startup at 21, he's now trying to find the subsequent sizeable concept as a full-stack net generalist targeting freelancing for early-stage startup companies.

When he's not coding, he is frequently running a blog, writing books, or giving talks at numerous non-conference occasions in Slovenia and within reach international locations. he's nonetheless searching for an opportunity to talk at an immense overseas conference.

In November 2012, he begun writing Why Programmers paintings At evening, and set out on a quest to enhance the lives of builders everywhere.

Table of Contents

1. Getting begun with D3, ES2016, and Node.js
2. A Primer on DOM, SVG, and CSS
3. Making information Useful
4. Defining the consumer adventure – Animation and Interaction
5. Layouts – D3's Black Magic
6. D3 at the Server with Node.js
7. Designing reliable info Visualizations
8. Having self belief on your Visualizations