Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web-even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It...s easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction. Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, a JavaScript library that lets you express data visually in a web browser. Along the way, you...ll expand your web programming skills, using tools such as HTML and JavaScript.

This step-by-step guide is ideal whether you...re a designer or visual artist with no programming experience, a reporter exploring the new frontier of data journalism, or anyone who wants to visualize and share data.

• Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG basics
• Dynamically generate web page elements from your data-and choose visual encoding rules to style them
• Create bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, stacked bar charts, and force-directed layouts
• Use smooth, animated transitions to show changes in your data
• Introduce interactivity to help users explore data through different views
• Create customized geographic maps with data
• Explore hands-on with downloadable code and over 100 examples