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D3.js in Action, Third Edition
Create stunning web-based data visualizations with D3.js. This totally-revised new edition of D3.js in Action guides you from simple charts to powerful interactive graphics.
In D3.js in Action, Third Edition you will learn how
D3.js in Action, Third Edition teaches you how to create an extensive portfolio of visualizations, interactive graphics, and data-driven applications using D3.js. This third edition is fully updated to the latest version of D3. It also contains new coverage of the essential aspects of modern digital visualizations. Brand new chapters dive into interactive visualizations, provide new strategies for responsiveness in web-based dataviz, and demonstrate how to improve accessibility.
About the technology
D3.js is the powerful JavaScript library behind the most innovative and sophisticated data visualizations on the web today. It provides a simple but powerful data visualization API over HTML, CSS, SVG, and Canvas. Start with a structure, dataset, or algorithm. Mix in D3, and you can programmatically generate static, animated, or interactive images that scale to any screen or browser. You'll be blown away by how beautiful your results can be!
About the book
D3.js in Action, Third Edition is an extensive update to Manning's bestselling guide to data visualization. It smoothes the steep learning curve of D3.js, helping you gradually progress through fundamental concepts until you can build any visualization you can imagine! You’ll assemble an impressive portfolio, from simple bar charts to intricate networks and maps. Along the way, you'll pick up best practices for building interactive graphics, animations, and integrating your work into frontend development frameworks like React and Svelte.
About the reader
Suitable for web developers with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills. No specialized data science skills required.
About the author
Elijah Meeks is a co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Noteable, a startup focused on evolving how we analyze and communicate data. He is known for his pioneering work while at Stanford, where he was the technical lead for acclaimed works like ORBIS and Kindred Britain, as well as being Netflix's first Senior Data Visualization Engineer.
Anne-Marie Dufour is a data visualization developer with a background in computation fluid dynamics and mechanical engineering. She loves breaking down complex subjects into digestible and applicable bits.
In D3.js in Action, Third Edition you will learn how
D3.js in Action, Third Edition teaches you how to create an extensive portfolio of visualizations, interactive graphics, and data-driven applications using D3.js. This third edition is fully updated to the latest version of D3. It also contains new coverage of the essential aspects of modern digital visualizations. Brand new chapters dive into interactive visualizations, provide new strategies for responsiveness in web-based dataviz, and demonstrate how to improve accessibility.
About the technology
D3.js is the powerful JavaScript library behind the most innovative and sophisticated data visualizations on the web today. It provides a simple but powerful data visualization API over HTML, CSS, SVG, and Canvas. Start with a structure, dataset, or algorithm. Mix in D3, and you can programmatically generate static, animated, or interactive images that scale to any screen or browser. You'll be blown away by how beautiful your results can be!
About the book
D3.js in Action, Third Edition is an extensive update to Manning's bestselling guide to data visualization. It smoothes the steep learning curve of D3.js, helping you gradually progress through fundamental concepts until you can build any visualization you can imagine! You’ll assemble an impressive portfolio, from simple bar charts to intricate networks and maps. Along the way, you'll pick up best practices for building interactive graphics, animations, and integrating your work into frontend development frameworks like React and Svelte.
About the reader
Suitable for web developers with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills. No specialized data science skills required.
About the author
Elijah Meeks is a co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Noteable, a startup focused on evolving how we analyze and communicate data. He is known for his pioneering work while at Stanford, where he was the technical lead for acclaimed works like ORBIS and Kindred Britain, as well as being Netflix's first Senior Data Visualization Engineer.
Anne-Marie Dufour is a data visualization developer with a background in computation fluid dynamics and mechanical engineering. She loves breaking down complex subjects into digestible and applicable bits.
656 pages, Paperback
Published July 30, 2024
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Elijah Meeks
4 books16 followersI'm currently a senior data visualization engineer at Netflix, where I have the chance to create visual representations of big data. I started doing data visualization and analysis in graduate school where I used GIS to study the effects of environmental change on historical states. Before coming to Netflix, I worked at Stanford creating interactive scholarly works in the field of digital humanities, which broadly speaking is the application of new analytical and interactive techniques to the study of history, literature and philosophy.
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August 16, 2024
One of the best, if not the absolute best book ever written about D3.js. Full of insights, very practical and extended with on the field experience of the top experts on the topic: very enriching and captivating. A must!
March 14, 2025
If I could give this book 10 stars I would. It’s absolutely perfect, explaining and showing so much of current (framework integrated) advanced data viz. As I’m working with their code examples I will come back to the book a lot, that’s also the reason it took me long time to finish it. I always tried and applied even to my projects what was introduced in the chapters. This book is extremely rich, meaning in code and data viz design delivering high standard. That’s special because a lot of books only fulfill one of the two.
August 17, 2024
This is a good book for learning how to develop advanced visualizations using the D3.js library. No prior knowledge of D3.js is required, as the content is presented in a gradual manner to facilitate learning. The book takes us from the fundamentals of D3.js to the construction of interactive visualizations and other advanced concepts. It should be noted that having a programming background would be necessary to make the most of the explanations; it is not a beginner's book. It can be recommended to professionals and advanced-level computer science students.
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