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D3.js 4.x Data Visualization - Third Edition

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Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787120358

Pages 308 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Data Visualization

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Aendrew Rininsland

Swizec Teller

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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Preface

1. Getting Started with D3, ES2017, and Node.js

2. A Primer on DOM, SVG, and CSS

3. Shape Primitives of D3

4. Making Data Useful

5. Defining the User Experience - Animation and Interaction

6. Hierarchical Layouts of D3

7. The Other Layouts

8. D3 on the Server with Canvas, Koa 2, and Node.js

9. Having Confidence in Your Visualizations

10. Designing Good Data Visualizations

Scalable Vector Graphics

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a vector graphics format that describes images with XML. It has been around since 1999 and is supported by all major browsers nowadays.

Vector images can be rendered in any size without becoming fuzzy. This means that you can render the same image on a large retina display or a small mobile phone, and it will look great in both cases. SVG images are made up of shapes you can create from scratch using paths or put together from basic shapes (for example, lines and circles) defined in the standard. The format itself represents shapes with XML elements and attributes. Since it's an XML-style standard like HTML, quite a lot of what you may already know about HTML also applies to SVG.

As such, SVG code is just a bunch of text you can edit manually, inspect with your browser's normal debugging tools, and compress with standard text compression algorithms. Being text based also means that you can use D3 to create an image in your browser...

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Authors (2)

Aendrew Rininsland

<p>Aendrew Rininsland is a developer and journalist who has spent much of the last half a decade building interactive content for newspapers such as The Financial Times, The Times, Sunday Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. During his 3 years at The Times and Sunday Times, he worked on all kinds of editorial projects, ranging from obituaries of figures such as Nelson Mandela to high-profile, data-driven investigations such as The Doping Scandal the largest leak of sporting blood test data in history. He is currently a senior developer with the interactive graphics team at the Financial Times.</p>

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Swizec Teller

Swizec Teller is a geek with a hat. Founding his first startup at 21, he is now looking for the next big idea as a full-stack web generalist focusing on freelancing for early-stage startup companies. When he isn't coding, he's usually blogging, writing books, or giving talks at various non-conference events in Slovenia and nearby countries. He is still looking for a chance to speak at a big international conference. In November 2012, he started writing Why Programmers Work at Night, and set out on a quest to improve the lives of developers everywhere.

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