Stephen specializes in front-end development at Intellum where he is helping to build tools for the modern workplace. He is the author of several books on the Internet and networking technology and has written about web development for Smashing Magazine, Site Point and others. His most recent book is Data Visualization with JavaScript from No Starch Press.
D3.js is the preeminent JavaScript library for visualizing data in a web browser, but it has the reputation of being challenging to learn and difficult to master. This session introduces D3 starting with its underlying philosophy. This understanding makes it easy to appreciate the library’s scope and power. We’ll also walk through example code and see some of the nifty visualizations that no other JavaScript library can support.