D3.js : Data-Driven Visualizations

New technologies are generally either incremental or revolutionary. While there have been lots of incremental visualization advancements in the last several years, D3.js is an example of a revolutionary leap forward. The simplicity of D3.js' conceptual approach coupled with its appreciation and use of standards make this a powerful, flexible, expressive and widely-usable visualization framework.

Data-Driven Documents (D3.js) is a JavaScript framework for visualization that lets the data speak for itself. It leverages the power and flexibility of existing standards (DOM, HTML, CSS) with a very thin, but powerful, layer of JavaScript to create one of the most flexible and powerful visualization frameworks currently available.

Based on Mike Bostock's (http://bost.ocks.org/mike/) academic research at Stanford's Visualization Group but forged with the pragmatism of an accomplished and prolific modern JavaScript master, D3.js strikes the right balance for a wide variety of uses.

This talk will introduce you to the theory, the API and a large number of applied examples.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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