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You're reading from Learning D3.js 5 Mapping - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787280175

Pages 298 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Concepts

Data Visualization

Authors (3):

Thomas Newton

Oscar Villarreal

Lars Verspohl

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Gathering Your Cartography Toolbox

2. Creating Images from Simple Text

3. Producing Graphics from Data - the Foundations of D3

4. Creating a Map

5. Click-Click Boom! Applying Interactivity to Your Map

6. Finding and Working with Geographic Data

7. Testing

8. Drawing with Canvas and D3

9. Mapping with Canvas and D3

10. Adding Interactivity to Your Canvas Map

11. Shaping Maps with Data - Hexbin Maps

12. Publishing Your Visualization with GitHub Pages

Transform

The transform allows you to change your visualization dynamically and is one of the advantages of using SVG and commands to draw shapes. Transform is an additional attribute you can add to any of the elements we have discussed so far. Two important types of transform when dealing with our D3 maps are:

Translate: Move the element
Scale: Adjust the coordinates for all attributes in the element

Translate

You will likely use this transformation in all of your cartography work and will see it in most D3 examples online. As a technique, it's often used with a margin object to shift the entire visualization. The following syntax can be applied to any element:

transform="translate(x,y)"

Here, x and y are...

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Authors (3)

Thomas Newton

Thomas Newton has over 20 years of experience in software engineering, creating highly scalable and flexible software solutions for clients. During this period, he has developed a broad range of expertise ranging from data visualizations, to large-scale cloud platforms, to continuous delivery and DevOps. When not going in a new technology, he spends time with his beautiful family.

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Oscar Villarreal

Oscar Villarreal has been building web applications and visualizations for the past 15 years. He's worked with all kinds of businesses and organizations globally, helping them visualize and interact with data in more meaningful ways. He enjoys spending time with his wife and kid, as well as hanging from the edge of a rock wall when climbing.

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Lars Verspohl

Lars Verspohl has been modeling and visualizing data for over 15 years. He works with businesses and organisations from all over the world to turn their often complex data into intelligible interactive visualizations. He also writes and builds stuff at datamake.io. His ideal weekend is spent either at a lake or on a mountain with his kids, although it can be hard to tear them away from the computer games he wrote for them.

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