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D3.js 4.x Data Visualization

You're reading from D3.js 4.x Data Visualization Learn to visualize your data with JavaScript

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787120358

Length 308 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

D3

Concepts

Data Visualization

Authors (2):

Aendrew Rininsland

Teller

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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Preface

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

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

Chapter 10. Designing Good Data Visualizations

Data visualization is a tool that can be used in many ways. As you've seen while building examples throughout the book, data visualization is sometimes used to communicate information in a novel or interesting way; sometimes data visualization provides clarity, other times it's just used to make cool things.

Regardless of whether you're a journalist wanting to highlight a change in GDP, a scientist needing to communicate the results of an experiment, or a software engineer looking to integrate visualization into a product, chances are that you'll want data visualization that is clear, concise, and does not mislead. Although the examples in this chapter will mainly be from a news media context, many of the points we'll discuss apply similarly to data visualization in general.

In this chapter, we'll look at a few general principles to keep in mind while building data visualizations and I'll give some examples of good data visualization as well....

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Authors (2)

Aendrew Rininsland

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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Teller

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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