Lesson 1
Visualization Fundamentals
Discover exploratory and explanatory data visualizations, identify data types and learn effective ways to encode your data.
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Data Visualization and D3.js
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Learn the fundamentals of data visualization and apply design and narrative concepts to create your own visualization.
Learn the fundamentals of data visualization and apply design and narrative concepts to create your own visualization.
Last Updated March 7, 2022
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Course Lessons
Lesson 2
D3 Building Blocks
Get started with visualizations on the web using html, javascript, css and d3.js.
Lesson 3
Problem Set: Visualization Fundamentals
Check what you've learned about visualization principles and tools for visualization on the web.
Lesson 4
Design Principles
Dive into chart types and learn how to use the way human brain processes what it sees.
Lesson 5
Dimple.js
Build up a visualization using dimple.js, using the console to debug and inspect your work.
Lesson 6
Problem Set: Chart Types and Axes
Test your knowledge of chart types and how axes work.
Lesson 7
Narrative Structures
Understand how organising your data story matters and develop your own visualisation from dimple to d3.js!
Lesson 8
Animation and Interaction
Create a map visualization, learn more advanced techniques for working with data and add an animation using d3.js.
Lesson 9
Final Project
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