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Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook

You're reading from   Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook Turn your digital data into dynamic graphics with this exciting, leading-edge cookbook. Packed with recipes and practical guidance it will quickly make you a proficient user of the D3 JavaScript library.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162162
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nick Zhu Nick Zhu
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with D3.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Be Selective 3. Dealing with Data 4. Tipping the Scales 5. Playing with Axes 6. Transition with Style 7. Getting into Shape 8. Chart Them Up 9. Lay Them Out 10. Interacting with your Visualization 11. Using Force 12. Know your Map 13. Test Drive your Visualization Building Interactive Analytics in Minutes Index

Using transition chaining


The first four recipes in this chapter are focused on single transition controls in D3, including custom easing and tweening functions. However, sometimes regardless of how much easing or tweening you do, a single transition is just not enough, for instance, you want to simulate teleporting a div element by first squeezing the div element into a beam, then passing the beam to a different position on the web page, and finally restoring the div to its original size. In this recipe, we will see exactly how this type of transition can be achieved using transition chaining.

Getting Ready

Open your local copy of the following file in your web browser:

https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook/blob/master/src/chapter6/chaining.html

How to do it...

Our simple teleportation transition code is surprisingly short:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var body = d3.select("body");
        
    function teleport(s){
        s.transition().duration(300) // <-A
          ...
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