The right paradigm: Hierarchical data

- [Instructor] Data visualization is often about…focusing on showing the connections between…and the hierarchy of objects.…This unique category requires a different way of thinking…about and displaying this in useful understandable…and meaningful ways.…This video's going to look at a few types…of visual approaches to this type of data.…So I'm going to be using a bunch…of examples from the D3 website.…If you're in data visualization,…you may already be aware of D3,…and if not, you very soon probably will be.…

D3 is Data-Driven Documents.…It's a JavaScript library for doing data visualization.…And it's most often used for interactive graphics,…but you can just create any visualization…out of data using this incredibly easy-to-use,…open source library.…There are a lot of great examples on this website.…And in fact, I use it very frequently…not just to find specific examples…and code examples to work with in D3,…but for inspiration, as you can see…there's just tons of things to look at…on this website, all kinds of forms.…