Data Visualization with JavaScript

2015 Computers

Author : Stephen A. Thomas
Release : 2015
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 052/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Data Visualization with JavaScript by : Stephen A. Thomas

Download or read book Data Visualization with JavaScript written by Stephen A. Thomas. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've got data to communicate. But what kind of visualization do you choose, how do you build it, and how do you ensure that it's up to the demands of the Web? In Data Visualization with JavaScript, you'll learn how to use JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build the most practical visualizations for your data. Step-by-step examples walk you through creating, integrating, and debugging different types of visualizations and will have you building basic visualizations, like bar, line, and scatter graphs, in no time. Then you'll move on to more advanced topics, including how to: Create tree maps, heat maps, network graphs, word clouds, and timelines Map geographic data, and build sparklines and composite charts Add interactivity and retrieve data with AJAX Manage data in the browser and build data-driven web applications Harness the power of the Flotr2, Flot, Chronoline.js, D3.js, Underscore.js, and Backbone.js libraries If you already know your way around building a web page but aren't quite sure how to build a good visualization, Data Visualization with JavaScript will help you get your feet wet without throwing you into the deep end. Before you know it, you'll be well on your way to creating simple, powerful data visualizations.

Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript

2016-06-30 Computers

Author : Kyran Dale
Release : 2016-06-30
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 548/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript by : Kyran Dale

Download or read book Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript written by Kyran Dale. This book was released on 2016-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to turn raw data into rich, interactive web visualizations with the powerful combination of Python and JavaScript. With this hands-on guide, author Kyran Dale teaches you how build a basic dataviz toolchain with best-of-breed Python and JavaScript libraries—including Scrapy, Matplotlib, Pandas, Flask, and D3—for crafting engaging, browser-based visualizations. As a working example, throughout the book Dale walks you through transforming Wikipedia’s table-based list of Nobel Prize winners into an interactive visualization. You’ll examine steps along the entire toolchain, from scraping, cleaning, exploring, and delivering data to building the visualization with JavaScript’s D3 library. If you’re ready to create your own web-based data visualizations—and know either Python or JavaScript— this is the book for you. Learn how to manipulate data with Python Understand the commonalities between Python and JavaScript Extract information from websites by using Python’s web-scraping tools, BeautifulSoup and Scrapy Clean and explore data with Python’s Pandas, Matplotlib, and Numpy libraries Serve data and create RESTful web APIs with Python’s Flask framework Create engaging, interactive web visualizations with JavaScript’s D3 library

Visual Storytelling with D3

2014-08-23 Computers

Author : Ritchie S. King
Release : 2014-08-23
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Visual Storytelling with D3 by : Ritchie S. King

Download or read book Visual Storytelling with D3 written by Ritchie S. King. This book was released on 2014-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

JavaScript and jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization

2014-12-03 Computers

Author : Jon Raasch
Release : 2014-12-03
Genre : Computers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 067/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book JavaScript and jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization written by Jon Raasch. This book was released on 2014-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond design concepts—build dynamic data visualizations using JavaScript JavaScript and jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization goes beyond design concepts to show readers how to build dynamic, best-of-breed visualizations using JavaScript—the most popular language for web programming. The authors show data analysts, developers, and web designers how they can put the power and flexibility of modern JavaScript libraries to work to analyze data and then present it using best-of-breed visualizations. They also demonstrate the use of each technique with real-world use cases, showing how to apply the appropriate JavaScript and jQuery libraries to achieve the desired visualization. All of the key techniques and tools are explained in this full-color, step-by-step guide. The companion website includes all sample codes used to generate the visualizations in the book, data sets, and links to the libraries and other resources covered. Go beyond basic design concepts and get a firm grasp of visualization approaches and techniques using JavaScript and jQuery Discover detailed, step-by-step directions for building specific types of data visualizations in this full-color guide Learn more about the core JavaScript and jQuery libraries that enable analysis and visualization Find compelling stories in complex data, and create amazing visualizations cost-effectively Let JavaScript and jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization be the resource that guides you through the myriad strategies and solutions for combining analysis and visualization with stunning results.

Data Visualization with JavaScript

2015 Electronic books

Author : Stephen A. Thomas
Release : 2015
Genre : Electronic books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 869/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Data Visualization with JavaScript by : Stephen A. Thomas

Download or read book Data Visualization with JavaScript written by Stephen A. Thomas. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how to use JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to build the most practical visualizations for your data. Step-by-step examples walk you through creating, integrating, and debugging different types of visualizations and will have you building basic visualizations, like bar, line, and scatter graphs, in no time. Advanced topics include: tree maps, heat maps, network graphs, word clouds, and timelines; map geographic data, sparklines and composite charts; adding interactivity and retrieving data with AJAX; managing data in the browser and building data-driven web applications; Flotr2, Flot, Chronoline.js, D3.js, Underscore.js, and Backbone.js libraries. --

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