If you search the web for examples of d3 data visualizations, you can expect to find a host of charts, graphs, plots, and maps. But data visualizations don’t have to be limited to these examples. They can also include photos, drawings, and animated graphics. I will focus on using SVGs so we can manipulate […]
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If you are interested in making beautiful custom data visualizations for the web, D3 and SVGs work great together. Both SVGs and D3 support interactivity and animation, offering a ton of flexibility to create unique interactive applications. Future posts will describe how to load and modify external SVGs with D3, but there are important steps […]
Continue reading →Below we list the tools and innovations from the RStudio Conference in Austin, Texas that we found the most useful and exciting. As with last year’s conference, the event is well organized and the community of R users is enthusiastic and professionally diverse which makes for a fun and interesting conference. And, similar to last […]
Continue reading →In a previous post we demonstrated how to animate a path on a Leaflet.js map using the amazing D3 JavaScript library. In this post we will take that code one step further — instead of a path our animation will reveal a series of points representing air pollution measurements through time. The final map looks […]
Continue reading →Updated December 8, 2014 Introduction: Animate a path with D3 Viewing location data that varies through time on a static map is fun, but viewing it on an animated map is a lot more fun. Recently, online map lovers were excited by Chris Whong’s Day in the Life of a NYC Taxi map in which […]
Continue reading →rChartsData Driven Documents, or D3 for short, is an incredible JavaScript library for creating interactive data visualization on the web. Earlier this year, for example, we illustrated the power of D3 by interactively linking maps and charts in this visualization. D3, however, can be challenging to work with, especially if you don't have experience with […]
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