I am looking to get started with d3 (https://d3js.org/). What is the best way to do this?
Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
#2I would start with an fairly recent tutorial written by Bostock himself: https://observablehq.com/@d3/learn-d3
A point I personally needed to grasp back when I first worked with D3 was that the data drives the visuals (hence data-driven documents). It was not an animation library. It's also not a charting library, but some charting libraries are built on top of D3.
Lastly, the D3 wiki also contains links to other tutorials, but they're most likely running on v3:
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
#3I liked this book:
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
#4I would start with an fairly recent tutorial written by Bostock himself: https://observablehq.com/@d3/learn-d3 A point I personally needed to grasp back when I first worked with D3 was that the data drives the visuals (hence data-driven documents). It was not an animation library. It's also not a charting library, but some charting libraries are built on top of D3. Lastly, the D3 wiki also contains links to other tut…
Thanks, I will start there!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
#5I liked this book: https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3
Thank you, I purchased the book!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
#6I liked this book: https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3
I agree. This book is excellent. It helped me understand D3 immensely and gave me the confidence to start making my own charts from my own data.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to get started with D3?
#7I have recently taken up a project to build out a dashboard for realtime data analytics. I did some exploratory research of the available data analytics frameworks mainly in Python. I found Plotly to be very popular. How much extra work would it be to just use D3 on the frontend with a standard python web server on the backend versus using just the Plotly library?