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 basics
- Dynamically generate web page elements from your data€"and choose visual encoding rules to style them
- Create bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, stacked bar charts, and force-directed layouts
- Use smooth, animated transitions to show changes in your data
- Introduce interactivity to help users explore data through different views
- Create customized geographic maps with data
- Explore hands-on with downloadable code and over 100 examples
