Data Visualization with D3.Js Cookbook Paperback – Illustrated, 24 August 2013

This was the first D3 book I bought, and I had high hopes, but it didn't live up to them.I needed to take the book with me when I didn't have access to the internet, and sadly with the more complex examples, it is missing code (redirecting the student to the website for the full code).The examples are either super easy, or the opposite. There isn't a wide breadth of examples, and the importing data via files (instead of arrays ) is lacking.I just got "Data Visualization with d3.js" and am loving it thus far, seems more challenging.

I found it very useful to move my steps in the data visualization field with d3. Even it's not a reference book, the recipes cover all the crucial aspects of the data viz workflow and can be easily changed to fit production needs.

with help of the author various simple D3 graphs are constructed, which help a lot to understand the basic building blocks of D3. The content is clearly explained, without presenting distracting information. The book works like the title suggests, the complete code of various working examples is presented, of which important parts are subsequently discussed in more detail. The source code of all projects is freely available, which helps to get the examples up and running and to fiddle around with the code and concepts. From reading the book experimenting with the examples on the official D3 website, which are more elaborate, but also more difficult to understand and less documented, becomes much easier and a deeper understanding of D3 is reached.

The exercises are well planned and help people understand D3. It is a steep learning curve, but this book helps.

good book .