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D3.js: Cutting-edge Data Visualization
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D3.js: Cutting-edge Data Visualization

by Ændrew H. Rininsland, Michael Heydt, Pablo Navarro Castillo
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
868 pages
18h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7. Creating Animated Visuals

We are now going to look at using D3.js transitions to represent changes in the information underlying a visual. We will start with examples for examining several concepts involved in using D3.js to animate the properties of visual elements from one state to another.

By the end of this chapter, we will extend the bubble visualization from Chapter 6, Creating Scatter and Bubble Plots, to demonstrate how we can animate our bubbles as we move through multiple years of data. This will demonstrate the construction of a relatively complex animation through which a user can easily deduce trends in the information.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics through examples:

  • Animating using transitions
  • Animating ...
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