Matthew Huntington - D3.js Quick Start Guide: Create amazing, interactive visualizations in the browser with JavaScript

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Matthew Huntington has worked as a developer for about 15 years now, and has a full understanding of all aspects of development (server side, client side, and mobile). He graduated magna cum laude from Vassar College with a degree in computer science in which he received departmental honors. He's worked for many clients in New York, including Nike, IBM, Pfizer, MTV, Chanel, Verizon, Goldman Sachs, Nestle, AARP, and BAM. He's worked with companies in pretty much all of the major industries applicable to development, and he has a deep understanding of the differences in the ways those industries work.

As an instructor, Matt has been teaching full-time since 2015 at General Assembly and has lead workshops at many locations, including prestigious universities such as Columbia University and NYU.

Xun (Brian) Wu is the Founder and CEO of smartchart.tech. He has over 16 years of extensive hands-on experience in design and development with Blockchain, big data, Cloud, UI, and system infrastructure. He is the coauthor of Blockchain By Example, Hyperledger cookbook, Blockchain Quick Start Guide, and Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week. He has also been a technical reviewer for over 40 books for Packt. He served as a board advisor for several blockchain startups and owned several patents on blockchain. He holds a Master's in computer science from NJIT and lives in New Jersey with his two beautiful daughters, Bridget and Charlotte.

Nikita Rokotyan is a data visualization engineer with a background in physics and creative technologies. He specializes in creating enriched, data-driven experiences with strong dynamic and interactive components.

Focusing on aesthetics and information content, Nikita has worked on a number of applied and artistic data visualizations for various startups as well as large organizations such as University of Tokyo, Proctor & Gamble, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Currently he's running a data visualization studio Interacta and co-running a company in NYCCultivateMethat explores how data visualization can help with a better understanding and cultivating human talent

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Welcome to D3.js Quick Start Guide. In it, we'll be covering the basics of D3 through a series of large builds. By the end, you should have a strong enough grasp of the library to go out and build your own interactive data visualizations.

This book is for junior-to senior-level frontend and full-stack web developers who are interested in getting to data visualization. The reader needs to have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and what a server is, in order to be able to work with the code and concepts given in this book.

, Getting Started with D3.js, provides a high-level overview of what makes D3 so interesting. We examine what an SVG element is and set up our machine so that it is ready to create D3 code. We also take a look at this book's approach to learning and how it applies to the applications that we'll build.

, Using SVG to Create Images Using Code, covers the basics of SVG (base tags, basic elements, positioning, and styling). We also look at Bezier curves and how to draw organic shapes with them. We're now ready to learn how D3 can be used to modify these elements .