HTML5 Graphics & Data Visualization Cookbook

Overview

HTML5 Graphing and Data Visualization Cookbook doesn't require you to have a background in HTML5 or Canvas but you do need to have a basic understanding of how HTML works and know how to code in any language (preferably in JavaScript). In this book we will not explain how to learn to code but how to create projects and how to plan and execute them in the process.

This cookbook is organized in a linear, progressive way so this book can be read from the start to finish or can be used as a resource for specific tasks.

The HTML5 examples and recipes will have you making dynamic, interactive and animated charts and graphs in no time.

This book travels through the steps involved in creating a fully interactive and animated visualization in HTML5 and JavaScript. We start our journey learning how canvas works followed by a group of tasks geared at taking what we learned and implementing it in a variety of chart types. With each chapter the content becomes more complex and our creations become more engaging and interactive.

Our goal is that by the end of this book you will have a strong foundation; knowing when to create a chart on your own from scratch and when it would be a good idea to depend on other APIs.

You will start from very simple "hello world" samples and quickly dive deeper into the world of graphs and charts in HTML5.

We finish our book in our last two chapters exploring Google maps and integrating everything we learnt into a full project.

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