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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 tutorialthat 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. You will learn how toIdentify a data-driven story and tell it visuallyCreate and manipulate beautiful graphical elements with SVGShape web pages with D3Structure data so D3 can easily visualize itUse D3's data joins to connect your data to the graphical elements on a web pageSize and scale charts, and add axes to themLoad and filter data from external standalone datasets Animate your charts with D3's transitionsAdd interactivity to visualizations, including a play button that cycles through different views of your dataFind D3 resources and get 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.