Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 2nd Edition

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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

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

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From the Preface

This is a book about programming data visualizations for nonprogrammers. If you’re an artist or graphic designer with visual skills but no prior experience working with data or code, this book is for you. If you’re a journalist or researcher with lots of data but no prior experience working with visuals or code, this book is for you, too.

This book will introduce you to D3, a JavaScript-based tool for loading data into a web page and generating visuals from that data. I assume that you have little or no programming experience. Or, perhaps you have programmed before, but D3 and data visualization are bringing you to JavaScript for the first time, and you’ve heard bad things about it. Well, JavaScript is a little weird, but it’s not as bad as you’ve heard, and everything is going to be all right. Please sit down and make yourself comfortable.

What’s New in the Second Edition:

In-depth coverage of nonlinear scales (such as square root and ordinal scales) and time-based scales
A new chapter on using SVG paths for drawing line and area charts
A new chapter on selections and using selections efficiently to filter elements by data value
A hugely expanded geomapping chapter addressing how to make interactive maps with panning, zooming, and tooltips, plus an introduction to the TopoJSON data format
A new project walk-through chapter, in which I create a visualization project with real-world data from scratch
A new appendix of inspiring case studies, in which nine accomplished designers talk about the processes behind their D3-based projects
A new appendix summarizing what’s new in version 4.0 of D3
An expanded appendix on 'Further Study,' including helpful tips on how and where to get help when you get stuck
A new appendix on sharing your code with others
A new appendix with a quick reference of the most commonly used functions
And more!

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Express Data Visually Learn how to load data into a web browser, and then express it visually, starting with simple bar charts and scatterplots. Get refreshers on HTML, CSS, SVG, and JavaScript, in case you’re new or rusty.	Use Scales and Axes Use D3’s built-in scales to map data values to pixels! D3 even has time-based scales for working with temporal data. Generate dynamic axes to label your visuals, and use silky-smooth transitions between different chart views.	Maps, Maps, Maps Make your own interactive maps by merging your data with raw geographic shapes. Use D3’s built-in tools to position data on the map, and enable exploration with panning and zooming.	Other Chart Types Over 140 code examples illustrate how to create everything from bar charts and scatterplots to line and area charts, pie charts, stacked bar and area charts, and force-directed network visualizations.

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"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

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.

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Item Weight : 1.72 pounds
Paperback : 474 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781491921289
ISBN-13 : 978-1491921289
Product Dimensions : 7 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
Publisher : O'Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (August 29, 2017)
Language: : English
ASIN : 1491921285

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Yeng C.

Do you need to learn D3.js quickly? Look no further.

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017

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-- begin backstory --

I learned about D3.js two years ago, after learning a bit about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My background is in math and statistics; R is what I use for mostly everything. Shiny is nice, but it doesn't allow for much customization, so I was looking for a new tool.

When I first learned about D3, I learned through Lynda, following the videos and examples. I finished the sequence in Lynda. However, even after that, I was not comfortable enough with D3 to start using it. I tried building a very rough sketch of a network tree with it since then, but for the most part gave up on learning D3, and thought that maybe I'd have to get more comfortable with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG, or use Tableau for the time being. I don't intend on becoming a front-end web developer, but maybe I'd pursue that in a decade, I thought.*

-- end backstory --

I bought this book on Safari (O'Reilly's eBook portal) last Monday. I have spent every day since then going through the first 12 chapters and skimming through the remainder of the book. By the time it hit Thursday, I finished this text and liked this book so much that I decided that I needed to have a softcover copy of this book. It is Saturday, and as I'm typing this, I am building a map using data from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard dataset! Amazing!

I have many, many books in math, stats, and CS (300 or so), and this book is one of the best books that I've ever read. The writing is clear and understandable. It is easy to follow the examples and to replicate them (all of the code for this book is in a GitHub). The code works. The book is very well-organized. And this book doesn't suppose that you're an expert with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or SVG.

I've spent many, many hours struggling to understand D3 syntax, and this book has cut down my time significantly from having to dig through the myriad of D3 examples online and trying to understand the code. If you are learning D3 and are like me, not having any background in web development and need to learn it quickly, look no further, and buy this book.

*That's not going to happen, thankfully. :)

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Tom is Tom

Id like it if the more complex parts had less downloads.

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018

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I really like the book, but by itself leaves out more than Id like. If you need ownership level knowledge of D3 I feel like you'd need more practice than this book offers. My biggest pain point is I initially skipped to the chloropleth maps chapter and the book is like "download this example, heres a brief explanation of how it works", I went back and worked through the chapters but I don't think that with just this book you would be able to make a professional chloropleth map with even static data.. Imho it wound be a million times better if it started with a 4*4 grid and showed how to do chloropleth with that, then moved on to more complex tasks. What I want would probably result in less coverage of cool features and more foundational "basics" that I could build on.

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Carlos Amiel

Very easy to follow

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2018

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I used this book on Amazon Kindle and it's really easy to use in terms of following links, viewing screenshots and being able to highlight things of interest. This book was awesome because the author did not assume that anything was obvious or simple about any step of creating a D3 visual. The introductory that goes through HTML, CSS and Javascript is so perfect, especially if your someone who primarily works in say R or Python for data analysis and visuals and don't necessarily have experience in web design. Overall if you read and re-read chapters and carefully follow the code you'll be up and running in no time. It's also great that the author teaches you a simple method of using Python as a web server so you can code and render in a flash. Overall this book is just fabulous and the Author did an perfect job of organizing the content.

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Jerome Cukier

This book is the best resource to learn d3js

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2017

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This book is the best resource to learn d3js. If you want to learn d3js, look no further - you can use this book as both a gently-paced tutorial and a comprehensive reference.

Quick note, the title "Interactive Data Visualization For the Web" may be a bit misleading. This is really a book about d3js. In 2013, when the first edition was written, those two things were synonymous, it's less true now.

This book is best suited for people who have a little bit of knowledge of web technologies (HTML/DOM, CSS, Javascript). All of the necessary concepts are introduced, so if you know none of this but are still willing to learn and write code, you will pick up valuable skills. Scott has a knack for making the various notions of d3 approachable. There are well over 100 code examples in the book so you can really follow along hands-on and tweak the examples to test your understanding.

When d3js was only a few months old, in 2011, Scott was among the first to write tutorials on his blog. These tutorials eventually evolved into the first edition of this book, which was really the first book on d3js. Scott was a professor back and he has been using and teaching d3 in some capacity ever since. I'm sure various people have different ideas as to who's the most accomplished d3 user, but there's little debate that Scott is the best d3 instructor.

Throughout the book, javascript is kept as simple as possible - pre-ES6 notations, simple file applications, etc. If you want to build complex applications, well, you're not the intended audience but you can still use the book as a catalog of d3 code examples rather than read it sequentially.

By the end of the book, the reader should be able to create their own charts on the web (including maps, force-directed graphs, interactive charts etc.) and feel autonomous on their projects.

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Great if no D3 (or even JavaScript) experience

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2017

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Great step by step examples and exercises. If you have some programming experience but have never seen D3 or even JavaScript, no problem. If you are an experienced JavaScript programmer you can also get straight to the good stuff. At the end of this book you are ready to tackle any D3-based visualization project from start to finish.

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PAT

Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2020

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Clear and well presented

ReAl

Covers most of the basic and somemore

Reviewed in India on January 9, 2019

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I am yet to finish reading this book. I am more than familiar with D3, actually I work full-time on D3. I bought it for reference and it more than serves the purpose. For beginners in D3 it would be most recommended.

Kindle Customer

One of the best d3 learning materials out there

Reviewed in Australia on March 8, 2019

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The book is generally slow but the concept are well explained , am at page 122 now and is almost like am professional already.
Everything you need to get started with d3 plus additional resource to help further your learning

Ill highly recommended

AmazonKundin

wonderfull and well written book

Reviewed in Germany on August 9, 2018

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very good explantions and a very good style! The book explains step by step the possibilities of D3. If you have some experience as software developer you will learn very easy and fast.

Emregency

Start d3 with this book before any online content

Reviewed in Germany on October 19, 2018

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Clearly a lot of effort has been put to make it as understandle and usable as possible. I wished finding this book before jumping in with web contents and try to find my own path.

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