A comprehensive, self-contained guide to D3.js (Data-Driven Documents), the library behind the web's most sophisticated, custom data visualizations…

Welcome to D3.js: Data Visualization for the Web.

A comprehensive, self-contained guide to D3.js (Data-Driven Documents), the library behind the web's most sophisticated, custom data visualizations — the interactive graphics in the New York Times, the bespoke dashboards, the animated explanatory charts that no off-the-shelf charting library could produce. D3 is not a charting library; it's a set of low-level building blocks — selections, data joins, scales, shapes — that you compose into exactly the visualization you envision, bound to data and rendered as SVG (or Canvas) in the browser. This book teaches it from first principles: selections and the famous data join, scales (the heart of D3), SVG, axes and shape generators, loading data, building charts, transitions, interaction, layouts and maps, and the ecosystem. It blends intuition, the concepts behind the API, and runnable code.

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Contents

1. Chapter 1 — What Is D3.js?
2. Chapter 2 — Selections: D3's Core
3. Chapter 3 — The Data Join: Enter, Update, Exit
4. Chapter 4 — Scales: Mapping Data to Pixels
5. Chapter 5 — SVG for Visualization
6. Chapter 6 — Axes and Gridlines
7. Chapter 7 — Shapes and Generators: Lines, Areas, Arcs
8. Chapter 8 — Loading and Transforming Data
9. Chapter 9 — Building Charts: Bar, Line, Scatter
10. Chapter 10 — Transitions and Animation
11. Chapter 11 — Interaction: Events, Zoom, Drag, and Brush
12. Chapter 12 — Layouts: Hierarchies, Networks, and Maps
13. Chapter 13 — The Ecosystem, Frameworks, and the Profession
14. Appendix A — Glossary and API Quick Reference
15. Appendix B — Further Reading and Resources