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Learn D3.js

You're reading from   Learn D3.js Create interactive data-driven visualizations for the web with the D3.js library

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838645571
Length 650 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Helder da Rocha Helder da Rocha
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Technical Fundamentals 3. Quick Start 4. Data Binding 5. Manipulating Data and Formatting 6. Scales, Axes, and Colors 7. Shape and Layout Generators 8. Animation and Interactivity 9. Visualizing Hierarchical Data 10. Visualizing Flows and Networks 11. Visualizing Geographical Data 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data Binding

The d3-selection module is a core library in any D3 application. It's hard to find a D3 application that doesn't use most of its methods, which form the vocabulary of a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) that chains together operations to select, bind, and update data, creating expressions that run as data-driven streams, dynamically transforming Document Object Model (DOM) components. One of the main goals of this chapter is to introduce you to the methods of this module, demonstrating how to use them for selections, updates, joins, and DOM manipulation.

This chapter will also cover the data-binding strategies used by D3, most of which are based on the general update pattern, which is a fundamental paradigm in D3. It was briefly introduced in the previous chapter, but it's important that you understand it very well, since it's used in practically...

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