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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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Highlighting selected items using brushes

A brush in D3.js provides the ability for the user to interact with your visualization by allowing the selection of one or more visual elements (and the underlying data items) using the mouse.

This is a very important concept in exploratory data analysis and visualization, as it allows users to easily drill in and out of data or select specific data items for further analysis.

Brushing in D3.js is very flexible, and how you implement it depends upon the type of visualization you are presenting to the user. We will look at several examples or brushes and then implement a real example that lets us use a brush to examine stock data.

Online examples of brushes

To understand brushes, let's first take a look at ...

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ISBN: 9781787281776