Month: March 2017

This course barely scratches the surface of what D3 is capable of. A more complicated example will show how you can make custom visualizations with D3 that are impossible with standard charting libraries. This is where D3 really shines. The goal is to make a chart of day lengths throughout the year, like this one drawn…

This article aims to give you a high level overview of D3’s capabilities, in each example you’ll be able to see the input data, transformation and the output document. Rather than explaining what every function does I’ll show you the code and you should be able to get a rough understanding of how things work.…

So far we’ve only looked at static lifeless graphics with a few rollovers for additional information. Let’s make an animated visualization that shows the active flights over time between Melbourne and Sydney in Australia. See the Pen D3 – scales by Haig Armen (@haigarmen) on CodePen. The SVG document for this type of graphic is…