Ask HN: I need to learn D3. Help design my curriculum.

11 points·elliott34··6 comments

I need to learn d3.js for my job. Right now my programming experience is largely SQL/SAS/Scheme/Matlab, so nothing really serious.

Things I know I have to learn: HTML/SVG JS...jquery? Finally, the d3 package.

Any tips on where a complete beginner would start??

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This is the gentlest introduction to d3 out there.

Run through the book and you will have a solid foundation to start playing around on your own for basic visualizations and charts.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do

This was also posted on HN a while back:

http://code.hazzens.com/d3tut/lesson_0.html

d3 is not dependant on jquery and covers a lot of the same basic DOM manipulation. You also need to learn some super basic css to theme things.

Thank you

D3 has some fairly extensive API documentation on GitHub, which I personally believe is pretty great. There are also links to various resources on d3 GitHub wiki and for extra measure I personally like to study Michael Bostocks' bl.ocks.org site for example visualization a with code samples.

Nothing beats thousands of example implementations written by the creator of d3 himself.

Check out my collection of links on Kippt: https://kippt.com/caseyf7/d3

I agree Scott Murray's book is the best of the books.

thank you

+1 on the O'Reilly book.

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