Nilesh R. Mohite
Nilesh R. Mohite
About the Author
Ben Fhala discovered his passion for data visualization six years ago while he was working at Parsons in New York, in their data visualization department PIIM. He is the owner of the online video training school, 02geek.com, and an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time learning and teaching, and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general.
Ben has had the honor of developing applications for US Congress members, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many interactive experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed many award-winning projects and has been a part of teams that have won three Agency of the Year awards.
I want to thank my cats for supporting me mentally while I was closed down and avoiding the world as I was trying to come up with good ideas for the book. I can't thank my editors Joanna Finchen and Kedar Bhat enough for the insight and help I got from them. For their kindness, support, and mainly their patience with me when I was struggling to fit my ideas into the recipe format.
A very big thanks to my technical reviewer, Chris Valleskey, for the detailed insights and suggestions that made this book better and shaped this book to be a really great one.
Thanks to Oren Ofer, which helped inspire the last recipe. To my students, co-workers, and friends at 02geek.com. Mom, for helping me through the creation of my first book. Nature and Earth for giving me a great place to be in, and the ocean for the great view throughout the writing of this book. Thanks to God for always opening up new doors to me in the most unexpected ways.
And last but definitely not the least, thanks for buying / renting / lending / reading this book.
About the Reviewer
Chris Valleskey is a young and creative thinker who currently lives in Chicago, Illinois. He started freelancing at the age of 17 and continued this role throughout college until graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design and Philosophy. Although he has a normal job in the city, he enjoys spending time with his close friends as a part owner in their co-owned company. In his free time he enjoys playing Halo, drinking Mountain Dew, and hanging out with his awesome wife.
I would like to thank my wife Krista for putting up with me, and my friends and family for supporting and encouraging me in everything I do.
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Preface
Today, the Web and the world are increasingly being defined by data. With the data revolution of the Internet in the early nineties and until today, more and more data has been exposed and aggregated, from government agencies, public sector information, financial information, digital media and news, and social media to private sector information, user information, and so on. With the overload of data on the Web it's easy to overlook information, as it's much harder to read and analyze in data format. That's where we come in. Our goal in this book is to open up the door to you to data visualization. With step-by-step guides that will take you from the basic creation of visual charts all the way through to complex geographical location information driven by Google Maps and Google Docs (Drive).
HTML5 and JavaScript are leading the new paths for data visualization and are moving us away from traditional client-side graph creation in Adobe Flash or server-side generated images. With the maturing of browsers, they are becoming more capable and solid than ever before. This is a perfect time to start transitioning the creation of graphs to HTML/JavaScript. But where do you start, and what is the best way to create the specific graph/map your project needs?
With that said, our goal in this book is to run through, showcase, and teach all the critical skills needed in the HTML5/JavaScript age of data visualization. Our goal is to help you make the right choice when you need to build a custom graphic or graph/chart and to help you choose the right way between creating it on your own or using third-party, small/large tools to create the graphic your task needs.