Visualizing Multidimensional Data with D3.js
Channel: Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Date: 13/03/2015

BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | March 13, 2015 | 1:00-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Kai Chang, Co-Organizer, Bay Area D3.js User Group; Technologist, Stamen Design
Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data, Society and Inference Seminar

Created by Mike Bostock, D3.js is a JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive data visualizations. The toolkit supports advanced techniques for creating data-exploration interfaces, such as linked visualization, perceptual color scales, dynamic map projections, animated transitions, parallel coordinates, and tree layouts.

I’ll show how these techniques were applied to build data-exploration and visual-analysis tools on the EcoEngine API. Along the way, we’ll go back to Mike’s examples to gain insights into how basic building blocks can be combined into custom visualization interfaces. In the second half of the lecture, I’ll livecode a new visualization from scratch using EcoEngine data.

Useful links:
http://d3js.org/
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock