CHAPTER 4

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Data Visualization with D3

Thus far when we have been talking about technologies used to create data visualizations we’ve been talking about R. We’ve spent the last two chapters exploring the R environment and learning about the command line. We covered introductory topics in the R language, ranging from data types, functions, and object-oriented programming. We even talked about how to publish our R documents to the Web using RPubs.

This chapter we will look at a JavaScript library called D3 that is used to create interactive data visualizations. First is a very quick primer on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the supporting languages of ...

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