D3.js Quick Start Guide

This book will help you build interactive graphs that are viewable in any web browser using JavaScript D3.js and SVG. You will learn how to make a scatter plot a bar graph a pie chart a force directed graph and a map.Key FeaturesTakes you through the most common graphs youll needAdd interactivity to your visualizationsEasy to follow buildsBook DescriptionD3.js is a JavaScript library that allows you to create graphs and data visualizations in the browser with HTML SVG and CSS. This book will take you from the basics of D3.js so that you can create your own interactive visualizations to creating the most common graphs that you will encounter as a developer scientist statistician or data scientist.The book begins with an overview of SVG the basis for creating two-dimensional graphics in the browser. Once the reader has a firm understanding of SVG we will tackle the basics of how to use D3.js to connect data to our SVG elements. We will start with a scatter plot that maps run data to circles on a graph and expand our scatter plot to make it interactive. You will see how you can easily allow the users of your graph to create edit and delete run data by simply dragging and clicking the graph. Next we will explore creating a bar graph using external data from a mock API.After that we will explore animations and motion with a bar graph and use various physics-based forces to create a force-directed graph. Finally we will look at how to use GeoJSON data to create a map.What you will learnBuild a scatter plotBuild a bar graphBuild a pie chartBuild a force-directed graphBuild a mapBuild interactivity into your graphsWho this book is forThis book is for web developers interactive news developers data scientists and anyone interested in representing data through interactive visualizations on the Web with D3. Some basic knowledge of JavaScript is expected but no prior experience with data visualization or D3 is required to follow this book.