D3.js in Action

Chapter 1. An introduction to D3.js

This chapter covers

• The basics of HTML, CSS, and the Document Object Model (DOM)
• The principles of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• Data-binding and selections with D3
• Different data types and their data visualization methods

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D3 stands for data-driven documents. It’s a brand name, but also a class of applications that have been offered on the web in one form or another for years. For quite some time we’ve been ...