Master D3‎,‎ Today‎'‎s Most Powerful Tool for Visualizing Data on the Web Data‎-driven graphics are everywhere these days‎,‎ from websites and mobile apps to interactive journalism and high‎-end presentations‎.‎ Using D3‎,‎ you can create graphics that are visually stunning and powerfully effective‎.‎ Visual Storytelling with D3 is a hands‎-on‎,‎ full‎-color tutorial that teaches you to design charts and data visualizations to tell your story quickly and intuitively‎,‎ and that shows you how to wield the powerful D3 JavaScript library‎.‎ Drawing on his extensive experience as a professional graphic artist‎,‎ writer‎,‎ and programmer‎,‎ Ritchie S‎.‎ King walks you through a complete sample project‎-from conception through data selection and design‎.‎ Step by step‎,‎ you‎'‎ll build your skills‎,‎ mastering increasingly sophisticated graphical forms and techniques‎.‎ If you know a little HTML and CSS‎,‎ you have all the technical background you‎'‎ll need to master D3‎.‎ This tutorial is for web designers creating graphics‎-driven sites‎,‎ services‎,‎ tools‎,‎ or dashboards‎;‎ online journalists who want to visualize their content‎;‎ researchers seeking to communicate their results more intuitively‎;‎ marketers aiming to deepen their connections with customers‎;‎ and for any data visualization enthusiast‎.‎ Coverage includes * Identifying a data‎-driven story and telling it visually* Creating and manipulating beautiful graphical elements with SVG* Shaping web pages with D3* Structuring data so D3 can easily visualize it* Using D3‎'‎s data joins to connect your data to the graphical elements on a web page* Sizing and scaling charts‎,‎ and adding axes to them* Loading and filtering data from external standalone datasets* Animating your charts with D3‎'‎s transitions* Adding interactivity to visualizations‎,‎ including a play button that cycles through different views of your data* Finding D3 resources and getting involved in the thriving online D3 community About the Website All of this book‎'‎s examples are available at