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JavaScript and jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization

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To Ally and Kaiya. You brighten all my days.

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For Annie

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To Whic, Granger, Charisma, Surley, Two-Gun, FEM, and especially Rafe. See you soon, guys.

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Jon J. Raasch is a freelance web developer specializing in web apps for desktop and mobile devices. A user-experience junkie, he builds HTML5 and JavaScript apps that focus on the users at every touch point.

Jon is the author of several John Wiley & Sons books, including JavaScript Programming: Pushing the Limits, Smashing WebKit, and Smashing Mobile Web Development. A perfectionist when it comes to best practices, you can find him building the modern web in his pajamas.

Follow Jon on Twitter @jonraasch and check out his website http://jonraasch.com. He's currently based in Portland, OR.

Graham Murray is a software architect specializing in building UI development tools. At present, he works at Infragistics, where he builds data visualization UI controls for desktop, web, and mobile. He is passionate about many programming languages, and he builds source-to-source compilers between them. As a kid, he found some BASIC code in the back of a magazine and hasn't stopped programming since.

Vadim Ogievetsky is a developer at Metamarkets, where he uses D3 on top of AngularJS to build interactive data-driven applications that scale. Prior to working at Metamarkets, Vadim was part of the Stanford Data Visualization group, where he contributed to Protovis and D3. Vadim is an avid promoter of D3 and web-based data visualization; he has guest lectured on D3 at UC Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford as well as at other universities, meetups, and corporations.

Joseph Lowery currently builds websites, creates online courses for Lynda.com and other sites, writes fiction, and hangs in Brooklyn. His books about the Web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages.

I would like to thank his co-authors for all their work putting this book together. I'd also like to thank the editors and the rest of the team at Wiley for their support throughout the project. Also, thanks to Martin for the technical proofread.

Jon J. Raasch

I can't thank my wife Allison and daughter Kaiya enough for not getting too fed up with me as I was half present while working on this book. It hasn't been an easy time with all the random adversity that cropped up while I was writing. Thanks for always sticking by me and letting me steal a little time for this book, especially when time has been such a precious commodity. My parents, Chris and Tony, provided some very timely babysitting on many occasions, and ignited my love for computers in the first place by letting me use them so much. My in-laws, Diane and Alan were so gracious and put up with us for so long as we were displaced from our house twice while I was writing this book. Thanks to Ambrose Little for the great edits and suggestions, and for encouraging me to do this in the first place, Thanks also to Jason Beres and Bill Hazard for insisting I take this on when I was feeling trepidation. I'd like to thank Robert Elliott and everyone at Wiley. I'd like to give a special thanks to everyone editing the book, especially Charlotte and Nancy, for being so helpful and patient and for helping me turn my esoteric prose into something people might actually enjoy to read. My co-authors Jon, Vadim, and Joe provided some great advice on additional content to cover. Thanks everyone!