



Harness the power of D3 by building interactive & real-time data-driven web visualizations

Find out how to use JavaScript to create compelling visualizations of social data

Identify the purpose of your visualization & your project’s parameters to determine overriding design considerations across your project’s execution

Apply critical thinking to visualization design & get intimate with your dataset to identify its potential visual characteristics

Explore the various features of HTML5 to design creative visualizations

Discover what data is available on Stack Overflow, Facebook, Twitter, & Google+

Gain a solid understanding of the common D3 development idioms You see graphs all over the internet, the workplace, and your life - but do you ever stop to consider how all that data has been visualized? There are many tools and programs that data scientists use to visualize massive, disorganized sets of data. This e-book contains content from "Data Visualization: A Successful Design Process" by Andy Kirk, "Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript" by Simon Timms," and "Learning d3.js Data Visualization, Second Edition" by Andrew Rininsland and Swizec Teller, all professionally curated to give you an easy-to-follow track to master data visualization in your own work.

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