How to Visualize Data with JavaScript
What you'll learn
- JavaScript, visualization skills, HTML, CSS, jQuery
Requirements
- JavaScript basics, HTML and CSS basics
Description
Welcome to How to Visualize Data with JavaScript. In this project, join Elisabeth Robson to learn how to incorporate data visualization into your web skills using simple JavaScript along with HTML and CSS. Elisabeth will take you through building an interactive visualization using data downloaded from NOAA, reading data into a web page, adding the data to an HTML table with JavaScript code, adding color to the visualization with JavaScript and CSS, and using a little jQuery to help make selecting and updating elements in the page easy.
Pre-requisites
To successfully complete this project, we recommend that you have some background in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You don't need to be an expert by any means, but you should have experience building web pages with HTML and CSS, and you should have basic programming skills with JavaScript.
Learning Path
Head First HTML and CSS
Head First JavaScript Programming (Chapters 1-6)
How jQuery Works: The Basics
This course: How to Visualize Data with JavaScript
Who this course is for:
- Developers who want to practice their JavaScript skills, and use JavaScript to create visualizations.
- Developers interested in climate change, and visualizing climate data
Course content
- Preview01:11
- Preview03:03
- 00:12Do the Work: Explore Visualizations of Climate Change Data
- Preview05:57
- 00:12Do the Work: Explore the Data
- 03:16Get Set Up
- 00:25Do the Work: Create the visualization by hand
Instructor
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- 1,837 Students
- 6 Courses
Elisabeth Robson is a co-founder and principal at WickedlySmart, an author, and software developer, and teaches online courses for for O'Reilly Media and LinkedIn Learning. She's the co-author of four best-selling titles--Head First JavaScript Programming, Head First Design Patterns, Head First HTML & CSS, and Head First HTML5 Programming--and previously the Director of Special Projects and co-director of the Head First series at O'Reilly Media. Prior to her work at O'Reilly Media, Elisabeth was Director of Engineering at The Walt Disney Company. Elisabeth holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Yale University.