Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

Awesome. Basically an intro, from the ground up, to d3.js - the powerful JavaScript library built by Mike Bostock for data visualization. I've been meaning to get good at d3 for a looong time. I now feel like it's somewhat possible. Great overview of the fundamentals, lots of calming encouragement, and - thanks to its links all over the place - an amazing resource.

FYI this book is an expansion and enrichment of Scott Murray's freely available d3 tutorials on his website. I'd say the tutorials form the skeleton of about 50% of the book. Still worth it, though, as (1) I need this shit offline, and (2) the final chapters are pretty mind-blowing (GeoJSON, where have you been all my life?), and (3) the walk-throughs of the existing stuff are more thorough.

On on on.