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Published inOct 2013
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Nick Zhu
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Nick Zhu is a professional programmer and data engineer with more than a decade experience in software development, big data, and machine learning. Currently, he is one of the founders and CTO of Yroo.com - meta search engine for online shopping. He is also the creator of dc.js—a popular multidimensional charting library built on D3.
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The ability to project and correlate data points to geographic regions is crucial in many types of visualizations. Geographic visualization is a complex topic with many competing standards emerging and maturing for today's web technology. D3 provides few different ways to visualize geographic and cartographic data. In this chapter we will introduce basic D3 cartographic visualization techniques and how to implement a fully-functional choropleth map (a special purpose colored map) in D3.

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Nick Zhu

Nick Zhu is a professional programmer and data engineer with more than a decade experience in software development, big data, and machine learning. Currently, he is one of the founders and CTO of Yroo.com - meta search engine for online shopping. He is also the creator of dc.js—a popular multidimensional charting library built on D3.
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