Getting Started with D3: Creating Data-Driven Documents 1st Edition

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Learn how to create beautiful, interactive, browser-based data visualizations with the D3 JavaScript library. This hands-on book shows you how to use a combination of JavaScript and SVG to build everything from simple bar charts to complex infographics. You’ll learn how to use basic D3 tools by building visualizations based on real data from the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Using historical tables, geographical information, and other data, you’ll graph bus breakdowns and accidents and the percentage of subway trains running on time, among other examples. By the end of the book, you’ll be prepared to build your own web-based data visualizations with D3.

Join a dataset with elements of a webpage, and modify the elements based on the data
Map data values onto pixels and colors with D3’s scale objects
Apply axis and line generators to simplify aspects of building visualizations
Create a simple UI that allows users to investigate and compare data
Use D3 transitions in your UI to animate important aspects of the data
Get an introduction to D3 layout tools for building more sophisticated visualizations

If you can code and manipulate data, and know how to work with JavaScript and SVG, this book is for you.

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Mike Dewar is a data-scientist at Bitly, a New York tech company that makes long URLs shorter. He has a PhD in modelling dynamic systems from data from the University of Sheffield in the UK, and has worked as a Machine Learning post-doc in The University of Edinburgh and Columbia University. He has been drawing graphs regularly since he was in High School, and is starting to get the hang of it.

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Paperback: 70 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (July 13, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449328792
ISBN-13: 978-1449328795
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A quick & dirty primer, but with errors and nothing unique

ByC. Nielsenon December 7, 2012

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I was a bit surprised when I got this book as it was barely larger than O'reilly pocket references. I was hoping for something closer to their book "Visualizing Data" which was fantastic for it's time, but utilizes a Java-based language that doesn't work well on the web, whereas D3 is javascript-based, and works fantastic on the web. The book goes to recommend Visualizing Data and learning JavaScript, but in doing that, the same material in this book can be found in free tutorials all over the web. Hopefully they have a much larger 2nd edition planned. But what really got me was the amount of errors in the code in a book this small. Doesn't anyone proofread anymore?

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Save your money

ByANDREWon December 19, 2012

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Way overpriced for the content. This book feels more like a teaser. Where's the beef?! The author does not give any insight into several D3 graphs such as Chord Graphs. To the author: Keep working please.

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This is a pamphlet, not a book

Bys. pantaloneson July 16, 2012

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Fair intro to d3, except it's a short 50 pages long and covers most material already available online through all of Mike Bostock's examples and tutorials on the d3 website. To be fair, I'd pay 4x this for a 2 hour session of someone teaching d3 in person, but I really don't think this is enough content to justify a book at $20.

I have to say I was pretty disappointed upon receiving this, expecting a higher bar from O'Reilly.

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Don't waste your money.

ByAmazon Customeron December 13, 2012

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This book is of no value. The books is very short, contains only the most simple and basic plots (all of which are ugly and terrible visualizations), and is easily found for free online. Not really even usable as a reference guide. I am extremely disappointed because I can see how powerful D3 can be when used right. This is not the book to learn how to use it. Strongly recommend that you look elsewhere.

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waste of time

ByZuffalupogouson February 20, 2013

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The material presented here is easily found online. I was really hoping for a more authoritative breakdown of D3 since it's not terribly well documented in the first place. I suppose I should have looked at the number of pages before ordering it, but it was a work expense and I figured O'Reily would not publish something useless.

Honestly, if a stiff breeze came by, it would blow this book off the table. I've seen puddles with greater depth than this book. How on earth did it get published?

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Helps step over the barrier to entry

ByAmazon Customeron July 8, 2012

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D3, javascript, and dataviz is so far outside my day-to-day programming experience that I had no way of figuring out how to get from the examples on d3js.org to some form of Hello World locally.

This book got me passed that initial hurdle.

By the end of the book, having typed all the examples 'by hand' so to speak, and trying to force my brain to internalize the basic mechanics of the thing, I think I've understood the basic idea of the enter() selection, and feel like I can probably figure out update() and exit() on my own, suggesting that the author accomplished what he set out to do. I believe I've now "gotten started" enough that I can for the most part ask the right questions somewhere when I do get stuck.

One thing that I, as a complete and utter novice, would have loved some extra hand-holding on, is how to determine axes and ranges and widths and domains. This can sort of be extrapolated from the examples, but a clear intro to these things would be a great help.

Another area that I wish the book had touched upon (preferably with a code example) is creating realtime visualizations. Without some idea of what goes into creating a realtime visualization it's incredibly difficult to figure out which search terms to use in order to stumble across useful information (it turns out node.js and socket.io are a good starting point, in case you were wondering).

The code examples use real-world (as opposed to contrived) data, which is a huge plus.

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Perfect place to start

ByAaronon May 20, 2014

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Great starting point for learning D3.

Easier then Googling around to get your feet wet.

Highly recommend for anyone looking at using D3.

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Gave me a good foothold

ByBrett Francison January 4, 2013

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This book was exactly what I needed to get started with D3. It has given me a solid understanding of the basic fundamentals, so that now the online examples and blog resources have become more meaningful.

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Published 1 year ago by Mike Sloan

Pure JavaScript product with data setup from ...Python only ?!

What I like most about JavaScript is no matter from what operating system you come from (Linux, Windows or Mac), back-end language you use (Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Objective-C...Read more

Published on November 2, 2014 by Cristi S.

Shame on O'Reilly. Kudos to Dewar.

It is obscene to charge $20 for this pamphlet and call it a book. It covers the same ground as Bostock does himself ([...] ) and Scott Murray ([...Read more

Published on March 15, 2014 by Jeff Beddow

move along, nothing to see here

This O'Reilly book is part of the "Getting Started" series, which I have to
say I don't really find valuable other than for a quick flick through a new
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Published on September 1, 2013 by Dave Cottlehuber

Just an introduction

It's a short book about a huge field. Useful if you don't know anything about D3. Probably future editions will be more complete.

Published on February 8, 2013 by gerardor

A start but you can learn it from websites

You can easily get this information from examples in d3 websites themselves but this book gives you a organized and full start into the framework.

Published on November 11, 2012 by Marjori Pomarole

The book I wish existed when I started using D3

This book is very short. In my opinion this is a very good thing. Instead of padding it out to get to some arbitrary amount, Mike tells you what you need to know, when you need to...Read more

Published on November 5, 2012 by Erik F. Kastner

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