Data visualization in the web
Most people use web applications to perform their business or to present their data to customers. There are a lot of web application frameworks that we can use to develop. Corresponding to IoT data, we can apply web applications to visualize our data.
In this section, we will review some JavaScript frameworks to visualize IoT data. I will not review all the frameworks but I will start with three JavaScript frameworks in order to inspire you to use data visualization.
Data-Driven Documents (D3)
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3.js has a large number of community members. It supports HTML, SVG, and CSS. Officially, you can get more information about D3.js at https://d3js.org. You can get source code for this library at https://github.com/d3/d3.
For the demo, we will develop the web program using Dj3. library. The program will display data using the Dj3 library. You can follow these steps to perform the demo:
- In general, you...