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  • The Fullstack D3 course is the complete guide to D3. With dozens of code examples showing each step, you will gain new insights into your data by creating visualizations in this self-paced online course.

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    Fullstack D3 is a self-paced, online course where you will learn how to master D3 and build beautiful, custom visualizations

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    Ben Xiao

    Data Analyst

    When I turned to d3, the learning curve felt so steep. But this course is a great catalyst for learning d3js.

    I've always had trouble translating what is in my head onto the screen but I feel more confident creating my own things now

    Hey! I'm Amelia, the author of this course.

    I'm a front-end developer at The Pudding

    Over the past ten years that I've been visualizing data, I've been perfecting my method and collecting helpful tricks. I'm here to jump-start your own journey!

    In Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization, I distill my hard-earned knowledge into bite-sized lessons.

    We'll start making charts right away, and learn new concepts and design theory as we go.

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    Charts are like an x-ray for your data

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"2018-01-01"}, {"time": 1514869200, "summary": "Clear throughout the day.", "icon": "clear-day", "sunriseTime": 1514895684, "sunsetTime": 1514929260, "moonPhase": 0.52, "precipIntensity": 0, "precipIntensityMax": 0, "precipProbability": 0, "temperatureHigh": 25.79, "temperatureHighTime": 1514923200, "temperatureLow": 12.65, "temperatureLowTime": 1514980800, "apparentTemperatureHigh": 20.13, "apparentTemperatureHighTime": 1514923200, "apparentTemperatureLow": 12.1, "apparentTemperatureLowTime": 1514944800, "dewPoint": 5.51, "humidity": 0.57, "pressure": 1028.58, "windSpeed": 4.71, "windGust": 12.25, "windGustTime": 1514912400, "windBearing": 266, "cloudCover": 0.05, "uvIndex": 2, "uvIndexTime": 1514908800, "visibility": 10, "temperatureMin": 12.23, "temperatureMinTime": 1514894400, "temperatureMax": 25.79, "temperatureMaxTime": 1514923200, "apparentTemperatureMin": 4.51, "apparentTemperatureMinTime": 1514887200, "apparentTemperatureMax": 20.13, "apparentTemperatureMaxTime": 1514923200, "date": "2018-01-02"}, {"time": 1514955600, "summary": "Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.", "icon": "partly-cloudy-night", "sunriseTime": 1514982086, "sunsetTime": 1515015712, "moonPhase": 0.56, "precipIntensity": 0, "precipIntensityMax": 0, "precipProbability": 0, "temperatureHigh": 28.32, "temperatureHighTime": 1515009600, "temperatureLow": 23.46, "temperatureLowTime": 1515070800, "apparentTemperatureHigh": 28.32, "apparentTemperatureHighTime": 1515009600, "apparentTemperatureLow": 14.28, "apparentTemperatureLowTime": 1515070800, "dewPoint": 6.03, "humidity": 0.52, "pressure": 1024.79, "windSpeed": 0.64, "windGust": 5, "windGustTime": 1514955600, "windBearing": 254, "cloudCover": 0.13, "uvIndex": 2, "uvIndexTime": 1514995200, "visibility": 10, "temperatureMin": 12.65, "temperatureMinTime": 1514980800, "temperatureMax": 28.32, "temperatureMaxTime": 1515009600, "apparentTemperatureMin": 12.65, "apparentTemperatureMinTime": 1514980800, "apparentTemperatureMax": 28.32, 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    Charts communicate ideas with simplicity, clarity, and detail.

    Once you're comfortable with D3 you can quickly:

    • understand key metrics at a glance
    • catch anomalies (before they turn into problems)
    • give key insights to your customers
    • and impress your boss and co-workers

    Today, I will show you the exact methods I use to create beautiful, understandable data visualizations using D3.

    Christine Gotth

    Data Journalist

    This is the first book (on coding) that I actually learned something from and I built my first visualization within 30 minutes.

    That took away a lot of my hesitation. I think you did an amazing job!

    Ali Butler Glenesk

    Software Engineer at Curai

    I always dreamed of being a data journalist and, after this book, I'm going to start a data vis blog - Thank you!!

    What People Are Saying...

    This is a really great book. I will be using it for teaching, as I am currently developing a lot with D3, for my work at the university.

    Florian Grassinger
    Junior Researcher at University of Applied Sciences, FH St. Pölten

    This book reads really well. Generalizing code is not commonly addressed in D3 books geared towards beginners. Thank you for doing that Amelia! Great work!

    Leandro Collares
    Software Developer

    I bought this book for a singular purpose and it delivered incredibly well. I saw an animation on the D3 gallery and wanted to learn how to make it. The Sankey Diagram chapter did not disappoint! I started from the beginning and worked myself up to that chapter and felt very confident building and adapting the interactive visualization once I got there.

    Adam Dalton
    PhD Student at The University of Florida

    Fullstack D3 does a nice job demonstrating that I can easily transform json into datapoints and that d3 is good for scaling and other transformations. Also, thanks for the beautiful react tutorials on you homepage!

    Frank Imhof
    Student at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW

    I could use D3. JS pretty well, even before I got the book, but the Fullstack D3 book is a whole new experience for me. I like it a lot.

    Samuel Wataku
    ICT Manager at Kenya Medical Supplies Authority

    Fullstack D3 has been generally a fun & enjoyable read. It's a good balance of necessary detail to get the current work done with pointers to more investigative/curious folks to do as they please. Thanks for all your hard work putting this book together! Amelia's authorship is veryy enjoyable.

    Chuck Williams
    Technical Architect at AgileThought

    This is the first book (on coding) that I actually learned something from and I built my first visualisation within 30 minutes. That took away a lot of my hesitation. I think you did an amazing job!

    Christine Gotth
    Data Journalist

    Just did my first scrollytelling experiment using d3.js + javascript for scroll events! Can't believe it!!

    Guillermina Sutter Schneider
    Research & Project Manager at Cato Institute

    This is a wonderful book you have written and I'm learning and enjoying it a lot. Fullstack D3 makes me think, I CAN learn this stuff.

    Marcus Holmgren

    This is, really, the best book on D3 that I have ever read. I've learned a lot.

    Daniel Lucazeau
    Software Architect

    Making a bar chart, chapter 3, was my favorite. I felt I was really learning it. After reading, I hope I will be able to make advanced visualizations on my own. I expect I can make them.

    Alexandra Muresan
    Web Developer at dynamictexture

    I used the book to help me in my online masters course for computer science program. I highly recommended your book to my fellow student colleagues because the book is very readable, fun and practical.

    Tarlan Mammadov
    Global Data Intelligence Manager at Shell

    Fullstack D3 seems to cover all bases and provides enough information for the reader to build on what they have learned so far! With this book, I am learning to understand d3 and data visualisation. Several methods such as d3.min, d3.extent, etc are valuable to solve problems that I've written custom code for in the past.

    Steve Rydz
    Frontend Developer at Canonical Ltd.

    The book is going great so far! I already created my first d3 viz here, https://twitter.com/Data_Stud/status/1211486869344665606?s=19.

    Barrett Studdard
    Senior Data Analyst at Save-A-Lot

    When I turned to d3, the learning curve felt so steep. So far, the book is a great catalyst (in the lowering activation energy sense) for learning d3js. I've always had trouble translating what is in my head onto the screen. The starter code is great, and I feel more confident creating my own things now.

    Ben Xiao
    Data Analyst

    Great work! I’m really enjoying the book so far. Your writing style suits me well.

    Mikkel Hansen
    Head of Data Science at Vital Beats

    I always dreamed of being a data journalist and I am hoping after this book to start a data vis blog - Thank you!!

    Ali Butler Glenesk
    Software Engineer at Curai

    I've been looking at quite a bit of Amelia's work recently, particularly on her blog. It was the quality of her work on the state of JavaScript 2019 site that brought me to the Fullstack site and persuaded me to purchase this book. All her stuff is great.

    Danny Joe Bauch
    Principal Software Security Engineer at Alion Science and Technology

    Excellent book! Without a doubt, this absolutely sets the standard for on-boarding students new to D3. It's lucid, accessible, engaging, and fresh. Amelia did a superb job of going over the enter-exit-update pattern. Best of educational material I've consumed.

    Michael Blum
    Freelance Designer and Developer

    The course has been amazing so far! It has a great balance between educating about dataviz, explaining methodologies, and letting us know which bits are syntactic sugar. Loving the course!

    Marguerite Roth
    Design Lead at Parse.ly

    Fullstack D3 is highly empowering to an autodidact such as myself. Describing join() early on in the book was a good idea. It made extending and experimenting with the examples of later chapters possible. The acquisition of real-life use-cases became more intuitive after gaining this concept; even without a data science background. I will be recommending this book to my fellows.

    Anthony Lyristis
    Fullstack Developer at Demme Learning

    I really like that this book gets you creating a MVP chart within 1 chapter

    Cameron Yick
    Software Engineer, Data Visualization at Datadog

    Thank you for creating this resource. I tried picking up d3 about 5 years ago and had difficulty finding my footing. I finally came back to it this year, and walking through the book's concepts and examples has given me a solid base to move forward with my visualization ideas. The book has been a reliable reference for implementation details as I go forward.

    David Newcomb
    Software Engineering Consultant at Xinampa

    Thank you for creating the best resource for D3 that I've experienced. It's multiple times better than anything else I've taken. I loved the separation of sourcing data, using a specific method to generate it, and then applying that generator where needed.

    Dan Denney
    Lead Front End Developer at DataCamp

    Before this book, I had a passing curiosity about D3 and data viz. Now I can't wait to wake up and find a way to incorporate it in my daily consulting. I loved having the ”why” behind the code and not just a dog and pony show with hard to understand examples. This book was awesome.

    Rob Brennan
    Senior Consulting Engineer at GenUI

    Thanks for this book. I'm actually doing a course on visual analytics at the University of the Andes Colombia, and this book is helping me understand the technical and theoretical parts.

    Leonardo Zorro
    Systems Engineer at G4S

    I am absolutely loving this book - the pacing, details, and sidebars are fantastic. This is an amazing resource.

    Walter Stoneburner
    Software Ninjaneer at Bogart Associates of Northern Virginia

    I was a D3 newbie, but couldn't wait to learn it. Now I understand why people in general say that D3 is quite difficult to learn. Lots of new concepts, but I made it through and I am still having fun! Amelia is a great teacher.

    Ralph Spandl
    Information Architect at r42 communication

    I love how the book is set it up so the reader makes a viz right away. I’ve learned a lot so far. This book will help me get over the hump with D3.

    Kurtis Pivert
    Data Science Officer at ASNDataAnalytics

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    Fullstack D3 Masterclass

    Build any chart you can imagine

    5+ hours of D3 video training from Amelia Wattenberger

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    You might be asking:

    Is this just another "pretty coffee table book"? I don't need another book that's filled with beautiful but useless information.

    Nope! This is a practical course that teaches you both the tooling and when to use it.

    The world of data visualization books is often split into two groups:

    • Pretty "coffee table" books with gorgeous pictures of impractical charts that you'll never use OR
    • exhaustive software library "explanations" that aren't much better than reading the API documentation

    What you need is something that is both full of beautiful, clear (and practically useful) charts, but also walks through every step necessary for creating real D3 charts - from empty folder to the browser.

    “But I'm a programmer not a designer - What if my charts turn out ugly?”

    In this book we cover design principles, do's-and-don'ts of design, and when to use certain kinds of charts. The result is that your charts will look great even if you have no formal training in creating visual information design. But more importantly: you'll understand how to communicate ideas with visualizations.

    Isn't D3 complicated? I need to get a dashboard up quickly! I don't have time to learn every corner of some confusing library.”

    Fullstack D3 is not a reprint of the API docs - it's a practical guide to everything you need to create charts as quickly as possible. Within the first 10 minutes you'll be creating your own custom D3 charts. After reading the first few chapters you'll feel comfortable creating your own visualizations.

    Can I use D3 with my existing React / Angular / web app?

    Absolutely. The course comes with lessons and sample code on how to integrate D3 easily — and efficiently — into your existing application.

    Corey Thompson

    Senior Software Engineer at Enovation Controls

    I really like the way Amelia outlines the steps in Making a Scatterplot. The steps frame it nicely when presented as a checklist.

    Also, seeing free formed shapes being created was eye opening and really drew my attention.

    Great job

    Questions you might have

    Here are answers to some common questions

    The book is a downloadable PDF, ePub, and Mobi along with example code zip that goes through the content.

    The course - which includes a free copy of the book - is an online course with hours of video lessons from Amelia, walking through the lessons.

    If you like to read, you may prefer the book. If you like to watch videos, and see how Amelia works, then you'll love the masterclass.

    It depends on if you enroll in the course or buy the book only.

    If you buy the course, you'll be given a login to newline where you watch the videos, download the code, read the manuscript, and add comments and ask questions.

    If you buy the book, You'll be able to download the book and source code after checkout. You'll also receive an email from Gumroad giving you instructions on how to download it at any time.

    In either case, you'll be given access to our community Discord channel where you can get help.

    Yes, but you don't necessarily need to be an expert. We assume you know the basics of programming in JavaScript. We walk through every line of code on how to build the first few charts.

    When joining the course, you'll be invited to our community Discord where you can chat with fellow students.

    It depends. The masterclass and the book share material - so if you went through the entire book and already feel confident building custom D3 visualizations, then you may not need the masterclass.

    However, if you only worked through a couple of chapters or you find you're a visual learner, you enjoy listening to a teacher, and you want to see, hands-on, how Amelia works -- then you will love the masterclass.

    If you're unhappy with the course for any reason, just reach out to us and we'll give you a full refund. No risk involved.

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