Christoph Korner - Data Visualization with D3 and AngularJS

Christoph Krner is the CTO of GESIM, a Swiss startup company, where he is responsible for its simulation software and web interface that is built using AngularJS and D3. He studied electrical engineering and information technology at Vienna University of Technology, including a 1-year exchange program at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.

Christoph is a passionate, self-taught software developer, coworker, and web enthusiast with more than 7 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing customer-oriented web-based IT solutions. He has always been enthusiastic and curious about new technologies and started to use AngularJS and D3 since the very first version. Christoph is not only fascinated by technology, but he also aims to push cutting-edge technologies to production services.

I would like to thank my colleagues and close friends, Firat zdemir and Vidor Kanalas, and my girlfriend, Laura Andrea Rojas Padilla, for all their input, support, and motivation during all stages of the book. I also want to offer special thanks to the whole Packt Publishing team for doing an outstanding job in supervising and supporting me.

Michael Alexander is an Australian FOSS developer who is the author of popular Angular-D3a D3.js directive for AngularJS. He is currently employed with HRMWEB Pty Ltd. and works on several web applications involving a range of technologies including AngularJS.

Michael also founded Miniand Pty Ltd, a company that helped the mini PC and developer board market grow in recent years in China through consultation and development directly with manufacturers.

Amin Ariana is an ex-Google and ex-Microsoft software entrepreneur in San Francisco and the cofounder and chief technology officer at Sponsorbrite Inc. He has combined the use of AngularJS and D3.js since the earliest days of their adoption at Google.

As a Carnegie Mellon University recipient of Director's Return on Education Award, Amin continues to be an ambassador of change for professionals and technology organizations alike. He combines his computer science foundations from the University of Waterloo with the disciplines of engineering, design, business, and innovation to create products and write entrepreneurial career roadmaps.

His advisory essays on scalable software engineering, entrepreneurship, innovation, and management are published in Forbes, Quora, and his personal blog at www.aminariana.com.

As the technical cofounder and CTO at Sponsorbrite, Amin leverages big data with insight-transferring solutions such as AngularJS and D3.js to bring corporate sponsorship to social institutions and communities that were left underfunded by the federal government. His team's fundraising and community relationship management platform is a prime example of how books similar to this can be tools toward multibillion-dollar social values.

Amin's upcoming book, The Rise of The Rainmaker , is about carving a career path from engineering to entrepreneurship. He is still writing the book and hopes to publish it digitally next year. The completed chapters of this book are accessible to members of his blog.

Special thanks to my wife, Abby Denzin, for keeping me sane enough to review this exciting book while managing a startup company and to my reviewer buddies, Izzat Contractor and Neha Thakur, for helping me reach the finish line.

Athos Demetri works as a freelance developer and technical consultant for a number of local businesses. He mostly enjoys bringing the power of the Web to technophobes. In those rare moments when he isn't working, he likes good food, yoga, techno music, cats, and enjoys laughing with friends.

I'd like to thank my mum and dad for always telling me that there's no such word as "can't" and for always being right the first time. I'd also like to thank Anja, without whose support, I'd have given up on programming years ago.

Finally, I'm also grateful to my friends for their patience and confidence in my curveball ideas about virtually everything.

Victor Mejia is a full stack web developer. He has been a part of different industries and enjoys working with full stack JavaScript and data visualization. In his spare time, you will find him coding, reading, in Bible study, and spending time with family and friends. He and his wife, Jessica, are in love and happily married. They are expecting a beautiful baby girl.

Jeremy Zerr is a web software entrepreneur and an experienced web developer, currently imparting his web application development skills to the world as a software consultant, educator, and product creator. Changing the world with well-crafted software is his passion. He writes about web development topics on his blog at http://www.jeremyzerr.com and offers his web software development services through his company Zerrtech at http://www.zerrtech.com.