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Visual Storytelling with D3: An Introduction to Data Visualization in JavaScript (Addison-Wesley Data and Analytics)

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Master D3, Today’s Most Powerful Tool for Visualizing Data on the Web

Data-driven graphics are everywhere these days, from websites and mobile apps to interactive journalism and high-end presentations. Using D3, you can create graphics that are visually stunning and powerfully effective. Visual Storytelling with D3 is a hands-on, full-color tutorial that teaches you to design charts and data visualizations to tell your story quickly and intuitively, and that shows you how to wield the powerful D3 JavaScript library.

Drawing on his extensive experience as a professional graphic artist, writer, and programmer, Ritchie S. King walks you through a complete sample project—from conception through data selection and design. Step by step, you’ll build your skills, mastering increasingly sophisticated graphical forms and techniques. If you know a little HTML and CSS, you have all the technical background you’ll need to master D3.

This tutorial is for web designers creating graphics-driven sites, services, tools, or dashboards; online journalists who want to visualize their content; researchers seeking to communicate their results more intuitively; marketers aiming to deepen their connections with customers; and for any data visualization enthusiast.

Coverage includes

Identifying a data-driven story and telling it visually
Creating and manipulating beautiful graphical elements with SVG
Shaping web pages with D3
Structuring data so D3 can easily visualize it
Using D3’s data joins to connect your data to the graphical elements on a web page
Sizing and scaling charts, and adding axes to them
Loading and filtering data from external standalone datasets
Animating your charts with D3’s transitions
Adding interactivity to visualizations, including a play button that cycles through different views of your data
Finding D3 resources and getting involved in the thriving online D3 community

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All of this book’s examples are available at ritchiesking.com/book, along with video tutorials, updates, supporting material, and even more examples, as they become available.

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0321933176
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978-0321933171
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August 27, 2014
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7 x 0.64 x 9.13 inches
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Ritchie S. King is a reporter and visual journalist at FiveThirtyEight.com, focusing on data visualization and interactive features. He previously held a similar role at Quartz. In a previous life, he was a chemical engineer at a start-up trying to turn wood chips and switchgrass into fuel. Though he left engineering to become a journalist, hes still into math and likes to muck with data. His written stories and graphics have appeared in the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Popular Science, and IEEE Spectrum.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional (August 27, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321933176
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321933171
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.64 x 9.13 inches

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Ritchie S. King is a visual journalist, currently living in New York and working at Nate Silver's news site, FiveThirtyEight. He spends most of his time writing — both prose and code — and working with data. He was previously a reporter at Quartz, and his work has also appeared in the New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.

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Mike Addison

Best book on D3.js!

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2015

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One of the best instructional books on D3.js I've found. Ritchie explains D3.js in a conversational way with very clear examples. As well as provides code for each chapter. He also provides additional resources for those wishing to explore D3.js further. And, resources in case one may become stuck with a D3.js problem.

I'm looking forward to Mr. King's future works.

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Ranjeet Khanuja

One Star

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2016

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Very basic, not for professional software engineers

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Isaac

This book should be called: How to Make ONE Bar Chart

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2015

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I wanted so much to like this book. I read fivethirtyeight and was hoping there would be a more lucid connection. This book did not take the traditional programing book path of recipes for different visualizations. Instead you learn how to make ONE chart.... and it's a bar chart. This one chart takes the author over 200 pages to build. There is some value in learning the nuances of d3 but they are mostly saved until the last few chapters. The title of the book is misleading in this regard, you do not learn visual storytelling. You will learn to tell one story that is largely uninteresting.

Though it is not referenced in the book there is a git repo which is here:
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Good D3 Intro Book

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2014

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This is a good book for picking up the basics for D3; if you have no D3 experience I would imagine most people would find the title very useful. I have read several D3 books and this is still a favourite.

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CARLOS DIAZ

I was disappointed after waiting so long for this book

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2014

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I was disappointed after waiting so long for this book. While the tone is friendly and interesting, I don't see the exact value of the author's explanation on the subject for the newcomer.

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ma10

The way to present data.

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2014

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Teaches by example. This book is very well written, it provides a tutorial on how to design charts and data visualizations by taking the reader through a complete project step by step. It also provides an appendix which provides an introduction to JavaScritp.

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Dimitri Shvorob

Dangerously slow

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2016

High-quality? Yes. Beginner-friendly? Yes. Pretty? Yes. Recommended? Maybe not.

The review entitled "This book should be called: How to make one bar chart" has a point: we are slowly building one - well, two - visualizations, and (a) that bar chart is all of D3 that we end up seeing, (b) the going is slow - four-page stretches of HTML do not help - and the reader's patience is seriously tested.

I would suggest the O'Reilly-published "Interactive Data Visualization" by Scott Murray, and Malcolm Maclean's "D3 Tips and Tricks" site and e-book, as two mutually complementary alternatives.

After that, google "austin lyons beer data viz" and check out the dc.js-plus-bootstrap.js demo designed by Austin Lyons. "Interactive Data Visualization" isn't as helpful as it could be when it suggests BI tools like Tableau - I will add Qlik and Power BI - as the way to go for "canned" standard visualizations. Familiarity with dc.js, for routine work, and Murray-book-level understanding of D3.js, for tweaking and recycling public-domain D3.js visualizations, just might be enough.

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Paulie M.

Good, but could be better..

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2015

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It's a wonderful book in terms of getting into the basics of D3. What I would love to see, are ways to implement real-time data (SharePoint) into D3. I don't think I could sit a write out new data lists every time there was a change. Regardless, the book does have value.

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George Nizharadze

Great introduction to D3!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2017

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Great introduction to D3 both at conceptual and practical levels. Great selection of examples and metaphors. Very valuable. Thanks, Ritchie!

Richard Ye

For absolute beginners

Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2015

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A book for people who probably have never used a programming language before, and, sadly, seemingly only for those people. This book only scratches the surface of D3.js, and I was disappointed that someone with a background like Mr. King's didn't dive any deeper. While by the end of the book a motivated reader should find themselves able to do simple things with D3.js, the book limits itself to the very basics, only sticking to plain blue bar charts. This is not a reference work; it is only a basic tutorial, and it really doesn't do D3.js any justice -- experienced developers are advised to avoid this book. The only reason I did not rate this book lower is that what content it has is fairly accessible.

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Ravi Chivukula

Was expecting much more from this book, but it ...

Reviewed in India on June 12, 2016

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Was expecting much more from this book, but it was not to be :( I was thinking that this book will explain about all possible graphs and charts with D3.js, but I found that it dedicated most of its pages to explaining about SVG and making things work with SVG. It is a let down for me.

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WL

Assez décevant

Reviewed in France on August 17, 2015

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Le titre est très attractif avec le mot "storytelling", mais d'une part, il n'y a qu'une seule histoire racontée durant tout le livre (qui plus est subjectivement inintéressante), et d'autre part l'utilisation de D3 dans cet exemple est extrêmement limitée: les exemples sur le site de d3js sont tous plus élaborés que le petit graphique non-interactif de ce bouquin.

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You can't even look at a page for 10 seconds!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2014

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I was really looking forward to receiving this book. D3.js is a very exciting Javascript library and I was sure that this book would get me up and running making beautiful data driven graphics. Unfortunately the print quality is so poor I can't look at a single page without getting what I can only describe as acute seasickness. All the print is very small and slightly blurred. It's like trying to read size 4 calibri after 20 pints. This has obviously been printed as cheap as possible at some budget printers. The pages are like the A4 you find in your office and the illustrations are just terrible. I can't see how someone who doesn't have the slightest idea about design principles could sell this book. Maybe the author needs to go on a design course himself. I would highly recommend the fundamentals of design course at codeschool.com (https://www.codeschool.com/courses/fundamentals-of-design). Due to the blurry text I unfortunately can't comment on the quality of the information inside. It might be a goldmine for all I know but in it's current state it's just not up to scratch.

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