Visual Storytelling with D3: An Introduction to Data Visualization in JavaScript

by Ritchie S. King

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.

 

• ISBN10: 0321933176
• ISBN13: 9780321933171
• Publish Date: 11 September 2014 (first published 20 August 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 14 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
• Imprint: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[adamfortuna]

This is one of the best programming books I've ever read at a conceptual and functional level. It guides the learner through basic D3 all the way up to where you feel powerful with the framework. King does a great job of introducing concepts as needed in an intentional way -- something I appreciate greatly when trying to learn a complicated new topic. If you're going to read one book on D3, this should be it.