Setting up a simple D3 development environment
First thing you need when starting a D3 powered data visualization project is a working development environment. In this recipe, we will show you how a simple D3 development environment can be set up within minutes.
Getting Ready
Before we start, make sure you have your favorite text editor installed and ready on your computer.
How to do it...
We'll start by downloading D3.js:
- Download the latest stable version of D3.js from http://d3js.org/. You can download the archived, older releases from https://github.com/mbostock/d3/tags. Additionally, if you are interested in trying out the bleeding edge D3 build on master branch, then you can fork https://github.com/mbostock/d3.
- Once downloaded and unzipped, you ...
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