From the course: D3.js Essential Training for Data Scientists
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Combining Javascript and D3 - D3.js Tutorial
From the course: D3.js Essential Training for Data Scientists
Combining Javascript and D3
- [Instructor] If you have text editor, and you're planning to work alongside me during this course, now is a good time to download D3. Your text editor so far should look like this, with a d3.html page and style.css. Create a New File in Atom and save it as d3.v4.js. Js is the extension for Javascript. Now you need to go to your browser. Head to a URL which is d3js.org/d3.v4.js and copy the contents of the page. You can do this without any scrolling by going Edit Select All or by pressing Control A or Command A if you are on a Mac. Then just copy and paste into your new file in Atom. And Save. And there you have D3. You don't need to download D3 in the future by the way. Many people just reference the URL from their code, but I like to be able to work offline. So now you have an html page, a CSS page, and D3. We need one more file before we can begin. You're going to need another Javascript file to contain the D3 code you will write. Create a New File and call it shapes.js. For now…
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