Data visualization with D3.js cookbook / Nick Qi Zhu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhu, Nick Qi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information visualization.

Visual analytics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Zhu Nick: 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. jsa popular multidimensional charting library built on D3.

Summary:

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. Create stunning data visualization with the power of D3 Bootstrap D3 quickly with the help of ready-to-go code samples Solve real-world visualization problems with the help of practical recipes In Detail D3.js is a JavaScript library designed to display digital data in dynamic graphical form. It helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3 allows great control over the final visual result, and it is the hottest and most powerful web-based data visualization technology on the market today. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" is packed with practical recipes to help you learn every aspect of data visualization with D3. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" is designed to provide you with all the guidance you need to get to grips with data visualization with D3. With this book, you will create breathtaking data visualization with professional efficiency and precision with the help of practical recipes, illustrations, and code samples. "Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook" starts off by touching upon data visualization and D3 basics before gradually taking you through a number of practical recipes covering a wide range of topics you need to know about D3. You will learn the fundamental concepts of data visualization, functional JavaScript, and D3 fundamentals including element selection, data binding, animation, and SVG generation. You will also learn how to leverage more advanced techniques such as custom interpolators, custom tweening, timers, the layout manager, force manipulation, and so on. This book also provides a number of pre-built chart recipes with ready-to-go sample code to help you bootstrap quickly.

Contents:

Intro

Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with D3.js

Introduction

Setting up a simple D3 development environment

Getting Ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

How to get source code

Setting up an NPM-based development environment

Setup a local HTTP server

Python Simple HTTP Server

Node.js HTTP Server

Understanding D3-style JavaScript

Getting ready

Functions are objects

Static variable scoping

Variable-parameter function

Function chaining

Finding and sharing code

How to get help

2. Be Selective

Selecting a single element

Selecting multiple elements

Iterating through a selection

Performing subselection

Manipulating the raw selection

3. Dealing with Data

The enter-update-exit pattern

Binding an array as data

How it works.

Binding object literals as data

Binding functions as data

Working with arrays

Filtering with data

Sorting with data

Loading data from a server

4. Tipping the Scales

What are scales?

Using quantitative scales

Using the time scale

See also

Using the ordinal scale

Interpolating a string

Interpolator

Interpolating colors

Interpolating compound objects

Implementing a custom interpolator

5. Playing with Axes

Working with basic axes

Customizing ticks

Drawing grid lines

Dynamic rescaling of axes

6. Transition with Style

What is Transition?

Animating a single element

Animating multiple elements

Using ease

Getting Ready.

How to do it...

Using tweening

Using transition chaining

Using transition filter

Listening to transitional events

Working with timer

7. Getting into Shape

What is SVG?

Vector

Scalability

Creating simple shapes

D3 SVG shape generators

Using a line generator

Using line interpolation

Changing line tension

Using an area generator

Using area interpolation

Using an arc generator

Implementing arc transition

8. Chart Them Up

Creating a line chart

Creating an area chart

Creating a scatter plot chart

Creating a bubble chart

Creating a bar chart

How to do it.

How it works...

9. Lay Them Out

Building a pie chart

Building a stacked area chart

Expanded area chart

Streamgraph

Building a treemap

Building a tree

Building an enclosure diagram

10. Interacting with your Visualization

Interacting with mouse events

Interacting with a multi-touch device

Implementing zoom and pan behavior

Implementing drag behavior

11. Using Force

Using gravity and charge

Charge

Gravity

Friction

Setting up zero force layout

Setting up mutual repulsion

Setting up mutual attraction

Setting up gravity

Using gravity with repulsion

Generating momentum

Setting the link constraint

Using force to assist visualization

Manipulating force

Building a force-directed graph.

Getting ready

12. Know your Map

Projecting the US map

GeoJSON

TopoJSON

Projecting the world map

Building a choropleth map

13. Test Drive your Visualization

Introduction to unit testing

Getting Jasmine and setting up the test environment

Test driving your visualization - chart creation

Test driving your visualization - SVG rendering

Test driving your visualization - pixel-perfect bar rendering

A. Building Interactive Analytics in Minutes

The crossfilter.js library

Dimensional charting - dc.js

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 7, 2013).

ISBN:

9781782162179

1782162178

OCLC:

868236416