Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 - Softcover

Murray, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491921285 ISBN 13: 9781491921289

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2017

Synopsis

Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the web—even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It’s inspiring and fun with this friendly, accessible, and practical hands-on introduction. This fully updated and expanded second edition takes you through the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, the most powerful JavaScript library for expressing data visually in a web browser.

Ideal for designers with no coding experience, reporters exploring data journalism, and anyone who wants to visualize and share data, this step-by-step guide will also help you expand your web programming skills by teaching you the basics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG.

• Learn D3 4.x—the latest D3 version—with downloadable code and over 140 examples
• Create bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, stacked bar charts, and force-directed graphs
• Use smooth, animated transitions to show changes in your data
• Introduce interactivity to help users explore your data
• Create custom geographic maps with panning, zooming, labels, and tooltips
• Walk through the creation of a complete visualization project, from start to finish
• Explore inspiring case studies with nine accomplished designers talking about their D3-based projects

About this title

About the Author

Scott Murray is a designer who writes software to create data visualizations and other interactive experiences.  Scott is in the Learning Group at O'Reilly Media, has taught numerous courses and workshops on data visualization and creative coding. He is also a Senior Developer for Processing, and is working on his next book, "Creative Coding and Data Visualization with p5.js: Drawing on the Web with JavaScript."

He can be found at alignedleft.com and @alignedleft.

Review

"There are few books that I'd call 'game-changers.' Interactive Data Visualization for the Web is one of them. It takes a topic that is obscure and hard to grasp for noncoders, and it transforms it into a delightful experience--full of clarity, fun, and insight. It's the book that I recommend to all of my students to get started with d3.js."

--Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, University of Miami

"Scott Murray is pioneering a new approach to design--combining deep knowledge of both code and visual principles to create work that is at once extraordinarily beautiful, highly interactive, and coherently integrated. What's more, he's a teacher who generously shares his knowledge. And now, he's revised his wonderful book Interactive Data Visualization for the Web--a foundational text for designers and anyone else dealing with the coming onrush of data."

--Hugh Dubberly, Principal, Dubberly Design Office

"We have been using Scott's book in our CS171 Visualization course at Harvard for the past three years. It is, by far, the most comprehensive and best introduction to D3 out there. The tone of the book is conversational, and it is easily accessible by nonexperts and beginners. Our students like it, and I believe they benefit from having the materials presented in the order that Scott came up with. We are definitely looking forward to the next edition!"

--Hanspeter Pfister, An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

"The first edition has simply been the most complete, effective, single source for learning D3 and visualization on the web from scratch. I have recommended it countless times."

--Erik Cunningham, Software Engineer, Twitter

"I can't think of a better way to understand D3. It's funny and engaging for a nonprogrammer, deep and detailed for an engineer, and filled with practical and visual bliss for the designer."

--Xaquín G.V., Visual Storyteller, formerly The Guardian, The New York Times, and National Geographic

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1491921285
• ISBN 13: 9781491921289
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 474