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Sourcing Data

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The previous three chapters covered the basics of perception, how D3 talks to the web and how not to lie with your data visualizations. This chapter introduces you to the incredibly diverse world of data and aims to provide you with ways to navigate it.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://opendatainception.io/.

  2. 2.

    Source: https://www.jasondavies.com/mobile-lawsuits/.

  3. 3.

    Source: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1153292.

  4. 4.

    See, for example, https://www.ushahidi.com/blog/2015/05/21/beyond-voting-using-ushahidi-to-help-citizens-protect-their-elections and http://www.localinterventions.org.uk/programmes.php?post=22 .

  5. 5.

    http://crowdcrafting.org/project/airquality/ .

  6. 6.

    https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Selections

  7. 7.

    https://bost.ocks.org/mike/selection/ .

  8. 8.

    https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Requests .

  9. 9.

    https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/CSV .

  10. 10.

    http://www.jeromecukier.net/blog/2012/05/28/manipulating-data-like-a-boss-with-d3/ .

  11. 11.

    https://github.com/mbostock/topojson/wiki .

  12. 12.

    https://github.com/mbostock/queue .

  13. 13.

    http://learnjsdata.com/combine_data.html .

  14. 14.

    https://github.com/lovasoa/toutf8/tree/master .

  15. 15.

    http://openrefine.org/ .

  16. 16.

    http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/ .

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  1. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Tarek Amr

  2. Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France

    Rayna Stamboliyska

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Amr, T., Stamboliyska, R. (2016). Sourcing Data. In: Practical D3.js. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1928-7_4

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