Data Visualization

Who This Book Is For

This course is for developers who are excited about data and who want to share that excitement with others and it will be handy for the web developers or data scientists who want to create interactive visualizations for the web.

Prior knowledge of developing web applications is required. You should have a working knowledge of both JavaScript and HTML.

What You Will Learn

In Detail

Do you want to create more attractive charts? Or do you have huge data sets and need to unearth the key insights in a visual manner? Data visualization is the representation and presentation of data, using proven design techniques to bring alive the patterns, stories, and key insights that are locked away.

This learning path is divided into three modules. The first module will equip you with the key techniques required to overcome contemporary data visualization challenges.

After getting familiar with key concepts of data visualization, it's time to incorporate it with various technologies. In the second module, Social Data Visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, it teaches you how to leverage HTML5 techniques through JavaScript to build visualizations. It also clears up how the often complicated OAuth protocol works to help you unlock a universe of social media data from sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

Once you are familiar with the concepts of incorporating data visualization with HTML5 and JavaScript, third module, Learning d3.js Data Visualization, will lead you to D3, which has emerged as one of the leading platforms to develop beautiful, interactive visualizations over the web. This module provides a strong foundation in designing compelling web visualizations with D3.js.

By the end of this course, you will have unlocked the mystery behind successful data visualizations.

This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: