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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

Tree-based visualizations

While looking at data to use for this section, I stumbled upon a couple of samples where the tree of life was visualized. The tree of life contains a complete (or partial) taxonomy of all the living organisms in the world, from the smallest bacteria to apes and humans. The following image nicely shows what such a visualization could look like (from http://www.botany.wisc.edu/):

While this data is well-suited for visualizing in a tree, finding data in a form that can be visualized like this is a bit more difficult. Eventually, I found the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), which provides much of the raw data for the Encyclopedia of Life (http://www.eol.org). While the Encyclopedia of Life provides a nice view on this data, it doesn't allow you to download trees or associated data. Luckily though, ITIS provides access to the raw data, and also allows you to download complete...

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