01 Introduction to D3

Welcome to a series of videos on how to create charts in the D3 javascript library, version 7 (version numbering is horribly important in D3). Each tutorial is as atomic as I can make it, stepping through each step as granularly as is reasonable. But stay patient please - D3 is difficult, frustrating and has a steep learning curve, but what makes it worthwhile is that D3 is the very best interactive online chartmaking technology there is. Nothing else comes close. Here we're going to look at some D3 charts, advise on browser and IDE choice, and write our index.html file, from which all good things shall come. 00:00 Why Learn D3? 03:54 Download D3 05:00 Why Use Firefox 06:35 Why Use Visual Studio Code 08:48 70- and 80-character limit rules in VS Code 10:12 Writing index.html *Links* An open letter to Mike Bostock: https://anthony-munnelly.com/blog/open_letter_mike_bostock/ D3 homepage: https://d3js.org/getting-started D3 download: https://d3js.org/getting-started About the Iris Dataset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set Github code: https://github.com/amunnelly/d3-tutorial/tree/main/code/01