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.