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Social Data Visualization with Html5 and JavaScript
This book is a fast-paced guide full of step-by-step instructions that teach you how to visualize social data using HTML5 and JavaScript.This book is for developers who are excited about data and who want to share that excitement with others. Developers who are interested in the data which can be extracted from social networks will also find this book hugely beneficial.Readers should have a working knowledge of both JavaScript and HTML.
104 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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January 13, 2014
Can you imagine the amount of Social Data that is available over the web? Consider people updating images, tweeting about trends, likes, dislike, favourites, etc. Social networking websites have ensured a great security of this data and at the same time, they also provide an option to create own /personalized applications to view data using credentials registered with them. Many applications we find these days that interlink our social network web account and allow us login without sign-up. Wondering how they do this?
Applications which provide visualizations or have options to use social networking website data, I call these applications as smart applications. They don’t store login information, they don’t know about likes/dislikes/preference, instead they use APIs exposed to web retrieving such information.
I started reading this book (published by PacktPub) yesterday, and the initial few chapters gave a bit of theory. But, when it came to illustrations I started feeling excited about the data that can be retrieved. The book does focus upon creating visualizations based on data which is already available on the web and present it in variety of formats. I like the way the author has used to present data available over web. This book provides good overview on how various internet apps pull data from social networking sites.
Author has well explained the use of various web techniques used these days with easy to implement examples and steps. If one has to choose between SVG / canvas & find readily available JavaScript for a self-learning project he/she is working on, this title can help a bit.
The interesting part I found in this book is about the explanation and illustration of oAuth and its use with social networking sites. Sample applications mentioned here are straight forward and also the code can be downloaded from the PacktPub web link. Prerequisites to follow this title are HTML & JavaScript and a bit of Ajax with the terms used on social networking websites (which am sure most of us are aware of).
As mentioned in a preface, "This book is for anybody who is excited about data and wants to share that excitement with others” I would say a Simple, Short and informative book.
Applications which provide visualizations or have options to use social networking website data, I call these applications as smart applications. They don’t store login information, they don’t know about likes/dislikes/preference, instead they use APIs exposed to web retrieving such information.
I started reading this book (published by PacktPub) yesterday, and the initial few chapters gave a bit of theory. But, when it came to illustrations I started feeling excited about the data that can be retrieved. The book does focus upon creating visualizations based on data which is already available on the web and present it in variety of formats. I like the way the author has used to present data available over web. This book provides good overview on how various internet apps pull data from social networking sites.
Author has well explained the use of various web techniques used these days with easy to implement examples and steps. If one has to choose between SVG / canvas & find readily available JavaScript for a self-learning project he/she is working on, this title can help a bit.
The interesting part I found in this book is about the explanation and illustration of oAuth and its use with social networking sites. Sample applications mentioned here are straight forward and also the code can be downloaded from the PacktPub web link. Prerequisites to follow this title are HTML & JavaScript and a bit of Ajax with the terms used on social networking websites (which am sure most of us are aware of).
As mentioned in a preface, "This book is for anybody who is excited about data and wants to share that excitement with others” I would say a Simple, Short and informative book.
January 30, 2014
In summary, it is a book for beginner to start connecting social networks and their APIs with JavaScript. And some examples to draw graphs with different web drawing libraries.
# Pros
This book compares bitmap and vector drawing approach by showing both canvas-based drawing and Raphaël drawing code examples.
Most of the code examples in latter part of book uses d3.js for social network data visualisation.
This book has detail code example of using OAuth with Facebook and Twitter.
It may serve as a quick guide on how to access different social network API, including Facebook, twitter, Google+ and StackOverflow.
Very good for beginner to kick start both visualisation and social network API connection.
# Cons
Doesn't provide much in depth code example on each topic. For example, this book doesn’t discuss how to make use of Facebook graph API to get complex objects relationship.
Not a book for whom to have detail usage example on particular drawing libraries.
# Pros
This book compares bitmap and vector drawing approach by showing both canvas-based drawing and Raphaël drawing code examples.
Most of the code examples in latter part of book uses d3.js for social network data visualisation.
This book has detail code example of using OAuth with Facebook and Twitter.
It may serve as a quick guide on how to access different social network API, including Facebook, twitter, Google+ and StackOverflow.
Very good for beginner to kick start both visualisation and social network API connection.
# Cons
Doesn't provide much in depth code example on each topic. For example, this book doesn’t discuss how to make use of Facebook graph API to get complex objects relationship.
Not a book for whom to have detail usage example on particular drawing libraries.
August 23, 2016
This is an interesting book that shows you how to go about collecting data from social software applications such as Facebook or Twitter and how to use it to create graphs and other charts in a web page. I liked the the holistic approach taken by Simon, the author, where related technologies such as oauth are explained and demonstrated so that the reader is provided with all that he or she would need to put what has been learned into practice.
If you have existing JavaScript skills and are comfortable with client side scripting and frameworks and you are looking to get into social and/or visualisation of data, this is a book that you will find easy to read and enlightening.
If you have existing JavaScript skills and are comfortable with client side scripting and frameworks and you are looking to get into social and/or visualisation of data, this is a book that you will find easy to read and enlightening.
March 11, 2014
The book is a good introduction but as soon as it gets interesting you reach the end. Reducing on fewer topics or adding 200 pages more and this could work. But the book in its published form doesn’t help much.
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