Maclean - D3 Tips and Tricks v4.x

First and foremost I would like to express my thanks to Mike Bostock, the driving force behind d3.js. His efforts are tireless and his altruism in making his work open and available to the masses is inspiring.

The decision for him to leave what must have been an incredible job with the New York Times to return to improving visualisation software (d3.js in particular) has marked him as a very special person indeed. If any reader of this book has the opportunity to support his continuing efforts, please do.

Mike has worked with a crew of like-minded individuals in bringing D3 to the World. Vadim Ogievetsky and Jeffrey Heer share honours for the work on D3: Data-Driven Documents and while there has been a cast of over 40 people contributing to the D3 code base, Jason Davies stands out as the man who has provided a generous portion especially in the area of mapping.

Nick Zhu has created a fantastic resource in dc.js (which is built on top of d3.js and crossfilter) and has been kind enough to provide good advice and permission to include some of his work.

Advice given by Christophe Viau has been a great help in getting me settled into the on-line world and his energy in managing and directing the D3 community is amazing.

Mike Dewar (Getting Started with D3), Scott Murray (Interactive Data Visualization for the Web) and Sebastian Gutierrez (dashingd3js.com) lead the pack for providing high quality reference material for learning D3. Many thanks gentlemen.

I am particularly grateful for the assistance given by Filiep Spyckerelle and Robin Bennett who selflessly donated their time and expertise in proofreading the earlier edition of D3 Tips and Tricks (d3.js v3) (where this document contains any errors, they are most certainly mine).

In fact Robin has been very quick off the mark and is feeding back areas for improvement in the new book already!

Big thanks go out to the D3 community. Whether providing advice on Google Groups or Stack Overflow, contributing examples on bl.ocks.org or just giving back in the form of time and effort to similar work. Well done all.

Out of the blue and in yet another example of the friendly and giving nature of people involved in this community I was contacted by Jose (Tactician Jenro) who offered to use his skills to design a cover for the original book. He has subsequently designed the cover for this version and I think he did an awesome job and was super helpful. If you think that he could help you out with a project, you can get in touch with him at @tacticianjenro or via his web site at http://mindthetimes.xyz/.

Lastly, I want to pay homage to Leanpub who have made the publishing of this document possible. They offer an outstanding service for self-publishing and have made the task of providing and distributing content achievable.

If youve received a copy of this book from any location other than Leanpub then its possible that you havent got the latest version. Go to https://leanpub.com/d3-t-and-t-v4 and download the most recent version. After all, it wont cost you anything :-). If you find some value in the work, please consider contributing when you download it so that Leanpub get something for hosting the book (and Ill think of you fondly while I continue adding content :-D).