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D3.js Quick Start Guide

D3.js Quick Start Guide

By : Huntington
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D3.js Quick Start Guide

D3.js Quick Start Guide

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By: Huntington

Overview of this book

D3.js is a JavaScript library that allows you to create graphs and data visualizations in the browser with HTML, SVG, and CSS. This book will take you from the basics of D3.js, so that you can create your own interactive visualizations, to creating the most common graphs that you will encounter as a developer, scientist, statistician, or data scientist. The book begins with an overview of SVG, the basis for creating two-dimensional graphics in the browser. Once the reader has a firm understanding of SVG, we will tackle the basics of how to use D3.js to connect data to our SVG elements. We will start with a scatter plot that maps run data to circles on a graph, and expand our scatter plot to make it interactive. You will see how you can easily allow the users of your graph to create, edit, and delete run data by simply dragging and clicking the graph. Next, we will explore creating a bar graph, using external data from a mock API. After that, we will explore animations and motion with a bar graph, and use various physics-based forces to create a force-directed graph. Finally, we will look at how to use GeoJSON data to create a map.
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Using AJAX data to create SVG elements

Now that our AJAX calls are succeeding, let's start building our app. From here on out, it's all basic JavaScript and D3. Note that everything we'll write for the rest of this lesson is done within the success callback of our AJAX request. In production, we might want to move this code elsewhere, but for now this is easier for learning. Let's create some rectangles for our bar graph. The bottom of app.js (the callback to the AJAX request) should now look as follows:

d3.json('data.json').then(function(data){
    d3.select('svg').selectAll('rect')
        .data(data)
        .enter()
        .append('rect');
});

Our Elements tab in our dev tools should look something like this:

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