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Expert Data Visualization

You're reading from   Expert Data Visualization Advanced information visualization with D3.js 4.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463494
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jos Dirksen Jos Dirksen
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Preface 1. Getting Started with D3 2. Basic Charts and Shapes FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Hierarchical Data 4. Visualizing Graphs 5. Working with Geo Data 6. Visualizing Streaming Data 7. Voronoi Diagrams and Heatmaps 8. Custom Shapes and Paths and Using a Brush Selection 9. ES6, TypeScript, and External D3.js Libraries

Working with Hierarchical Data

In the previous chapter, we created some basic visualizations, a donut, a line chart, and some area charts. The data we visualized was rather simple, with no dependencies between the various data elements. In this chapter, we're going to look at how to visualize a different kind of data structure: hierarchical data. With hierarchical data, the data can be represented as a tree of data elements, where elements can have parent nodes and child nodes. D3 provides several different ways we can visualize this data. In this chapter, we're going to explore the following subjects:

  • We're going to start by visualizing hierarchical data as a simple horizontal tree. Besides just showing the data, we'll also show you how you can zoom and pan around the visualization using standard D3 functionality.
  • One of the disadvantages of using a standard horizontal tree to visualize data...
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