Designing Beautiful Maps with D3.js



Michael Bowman
Applied Information Sciences
Dayton Data Visualization Group
http://github.com/bowmanmc/designing_maps
@webslingerm

Howdy.

My name is Michael Bowman and I'm going to help you Design Beautiful Maps with D3.js

The source code for this presentation is available at
https://github.com/bowmanmc/designing_maps

What is D3.js?

  • Data Driven Documents
  • Toolkit for building interactive visualizations with SVG

Ok, why SVG?

  • W3C Standard
  • Wide Browser Support
  • Human Readable (...ahem)
  • Developer Tools

Why is it good for making maps?

Design!

  • No Defaults
  • Colors
  • Projections
  • Interactivity

Alright, You've convinced me.

Let's see some code.