Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

by Scott Murray
4/5
(45 votes)

Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web—even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development.

It’s easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction.

Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, a JavaScript library that lets you express data visually in a web browser.

Along the way, you’ll expand your web programming skills, using tools such as HTML and JavaScript.

This step-by-step guide is ideal whether you’re a designer or visual artist with no programming experience, a reporter exploring the new frontier of data journalism, or anyone who wants to visualize and share data.

Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG basicsDynamically generate web page elements from your data—and choose visual encoding rules to style themCreate bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, stacked bar charts, and force-directed layoutsUse smooth, animated transitions to show changes in your dataIntroduce interactivity to help users explore data through different viewsCreate customized geographic maps with dataExplore hands-on with downloadable code and over 100 examples.

First published
2013
Publishers
O'Reilly Media· Incorporated
Subjects
Javascript computer graphics

While D3.js is an undeniably brilliant library, I found most online resources for it slightly lacking.

This book is just walk through of d3, not much of else.

Turns out D3 is software package over SVG. I've been brewing my own scripts over SVG and expected to see more than just bar and pie charts.

Scott Murray

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