Visual Storytelling with D3
An Introduction to Data Visualization in JavaScript
Paperback Engels 2014 9780321933171Samenvatting
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
About the Website
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Foreword    xi
Preface   xiii
Acknowledgments   xvii
About the Author xix
 
Chapter 1: Visual Storytelling and D3   1
Visualization, Visualized   1
Charts Give Data a Form–That Form Tells a Story   2
Quality: It Is All about Content   5
Design: It Is All about Form   6
Visual Storytelling   7
Enter D3   7
Things You Designers Will Love about D3   8
Things You Coders Will Love about D3   8
Things for Which You Should Not Use D3   9
Notes on Using D3   9
Tools You Will Need   10
Summary   10
 
Chapter 2: Finding a Data-Driven Story and Telling It Visually 11
Getting Started   11
Is the World Getting Older?   12
Finding and Inspecting Data   13
Honing the Concept   15
Choosing a Form   17
The Example We Will Build in This Book   27
Summary   29
 
Chapter 3: Scalable Vector Graphics    31
Peeking under the Hood   31
What Is SVG, Exactly?   31
Playing with Circles in SVG   32
Inspecting SVG in the Web Inspector   34
Styling SVG Elements with CSS   35
Other Shapes 37 
SVG Text   41
SVG Style Properties   44
Drawing Order and Groups   47
Transformations   49
Building a Bar Chart in SVG   51
Summary   64
 
Chapter 4: Shaping Web Pages with D3 Selections 65
Getting Set Up with D3   65
Making Selections   66
Changing a Selection’s Attributes   70
D3 Strives to be Declarative   74
Chaining Methods   74
Appending New Elements   77
Putting It All Together   79
Selecting Multiple Elements with d3.selectAll()   80
Building a Bar Chart with Selections   81
Summary   103
 
What Are Data-Joins?   105
A Conceptual Overview of Data-Joins: Enter   106
Enter and Binding Data   107
Using a Data-Join to Make a Bar Chart   111
Using Anonymous Functions to Access Bound Data   115
Finishing the Rest of the Chart   119
Storing Data in Objects   120
Summary   125
 
Chapter 6: Sizing Charts and Adding Axes 127
Linear Scales   127
Using Smart Margin Conventions   132
Adding Axes   135
Ordinal Scales and Axes   144
Summary   156
 
Chapter 7: Loading and Filtering External Data  157
Building a Graphic that Uses All of the Population Distribution Data   157
Data Formats You Can Use with D3   158
Creating a Server to Upload Your Data   159
D3’s Functions for Loading Data   160
Dealing with Asynchronous Requests   165
Loading and Filtering a Large(r) Data Set   171
Putting It All Together   173
Summary   175
 
Chapter 8: Making Charts Interactive and Animated   177
Data-Joins: Update and Exit   177
Interactive Buttons   181
Updating Charts   190
Adding Transitions   193
Using Keys   196
Summary   197
 
Chapter 9: Adding a Play Button    199
Wrapping the Update Phase in a Function   199
Adding a Play Button to the Page   203
Making the Play Button Go   204
Allowing the User to Interrupt the Play Sequence   207
Summary   213
 
Chapter 10: Striking Out on Your Own  215
This Book is a Foundation for Learning D3   215
How to Get Unstuck   215
Always Be Coding   217
Summary   218
 
Appendix A: JavaScript for Beginners   219
JavaScript in Brief   219
Your Browser’s JavaScript Console   219
Basic Math, Variables, and Data Types   220
Writing JavaScript in Markup and .js Files   223
Arrays and Objects   224
Methods and Functions   227
If Statements and for Loops   228
Debugging   232
 
Appendix B: Cleaning the Population Distribution Data 235
 
Index  255
 
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