2015
Packt Publishing
Merrill Cook
2:08
English
As part of the user interface, it is important that data visualizations are context aware and should adjust according to screen size, media type, and other similar aspects. To tackle this, it is essential for web developers to ace at both D3 and responsive design using Bootstrap to make visualizations responsive across different viewing platforms. D3 is currently the go-to data visualization library, offering greater integration with web standards, and better customizability than other data visualization libraries available.
This video course starts out by describing ways in which D3.js fits into existing web standards to provide data visualization solutions that can be easily integrated. After working through the basic flow of simple visualizations, we’ll start adding features: tooltips, axes, and scales. We’ll take a look at interactivity and transitions. Then we’ll walk through the use of external data sources, including CSV, TSV, JSON, and GeoJSON, which will prepare us for more in-depth visualizations.
Further on we’ll tackle responsive design, covering all the basic concepts, and then work our way through a site mockup the old fashioned way, looking for breakpoints and using media queries to provide smooth screen size transitions. Our work with responsive design will then be applied to a number of our early data visualizations.
We’ll resume our focus on responsive design later in the course when we’ll cover using Bootstrap and Pym.js, a JavaScript library that enables the embedding of responsive iFrames. The data visualizations we’ll tackle in the final sections of the course will include mapping with Topo and GeoJSON.
By the end of this course, you will have an armoury full of tools to create feature-rich data visualizations with D3.js that are responsive on different platforms.
Building Blocks 1 – Noninteractive, Reusable Charts
Course Overview
Creating a Bar Chart with SVGs
Creating a D3 Bar Chart
Creating a D3 Line Chart
Creating a D3 Scatterplot
Building Blocks 2 – Adding Scales, Axes, and Labels
Adding Simple Labels
Creating Tooltips for Your Visualization
Utilizing D3 Scales
Adding Axes
Responsive Visual Strategies
Defining Responsive and Mobile-first Design
Using Media Queries and Addressing Breakpoints
Choosing a Visualization Style Based on the Media Type
Matching the Chart Size with the Container Size
Scaling All Visualization Elements Based on Container Size
Building Blocks 3 – External Data Sources
Integrating CSV Data
Getting Data from JSON
Building a Map with GeoJSON
Building Blocks 4 – Interactivity
Using Transitions
Filtering Data
D3 Layouts
Mapping with GeoJSON
Setting Up the Basemap
Choropleths
Adding Tooltips and Legends to Our Map
Making It Mobile-first
Drawing Maps According to Screen Size
Throwing in Bootstrap
Integrating Pym into Your Visualization
Moving Forward
Recapping What We’ve Covered
What to Read and Whom to Follow
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