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Course Skill Level:

Foundational

Course Duration:

3 day/s

  • Course Delivery Format:

    Live, instructor-led.

  • Course Category:

    Big Data & Data Science

  • Course Code:

    D3JS00L21E09

Who should attend & recommended skills:

Those with basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript experience

Who should attend & recommended skills

  • This course is geared for those who wish to create interactive graphics and data-driven applications using D3.js. You’ll start with in-depth explanations of D3’s out-of-the-box layouts, along with dozens of practical use cases that align with different types of visualizations.
  • Skill-level: Foundation level D3.js skills for Intermediate skilled team members. This is not a basic class.
  • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Basic (1-2 years’ experience)
  • D3 or SVG: Not required

About this course

D3.js introduces you to the most powerful web data visualization library available and shows you how to use it to build interactive graphics and data-driven applications. You’ll start with dozens of practical use cases that align with different types of charts, networks, and maps using D3’s out-of-the-box layouts. Then, you’ll explore practical techniques for content design, animation, and representation of dynamic data – including interactive graphics and live streaming data.

Skills acquired & topics covered

  • Working in a hands-on learning environment, led by our D3.js expert instructor, students will learn about and explore:
  • Interacting with vector graphics
  • Expressive data visualization
  • Creating rich mapping applications
  • Prepping your data
  • Complete data-driven web apps in D3
  • Practical techniques for content creation, animation, and representing dynamic data – including interactive graphics and data streamed live over the web
  • The final lessons show you how to use D3’s rich interaction model as the foundation for a complete web application
  • In the end you’ll be ready to integrate D3.js into your web development process and transform any site into a more engaging and sophisticated user experience

Course breakdown / modules

  • What is D3.js?
  • How D3 works
  • Using HTML5
  • Data standards
  • Infoviz standards expressed in D3
  • Your first D3 app

  • Working with data
  • Data-binding
  • Data presentation style, attributes, and content

  • Project architecture
  • Interactive style and DOM
  • Pregenerated content

  • General charting principles
  • Creating an axis
  • Complex graphical objects
  • Line charts and interpolations
  • Complex accessor functions

  • Histograms
  • Pie charts
  • Pack layouts
  • Trees
  • Stack layout
  • Plugins to add new layouts

  • Static network diagrams
  • Force-directed layout

  • Basic mapmaking
  • Better mapping
  • Advanced mapping
  • TopoJSON data and functionality
  • Tile mapping with d3.geo.tile
  • Further reading for web mapping

  • One data source, many perspectives
  • Interactivity: hover events
  • Brushing

  • Creating a layout
  • Writing your own components

  • Big geodata
  • Big network data
  • Optimizing xy data selection with quadtrees
  • More optimization techniques