Chapter 10. Interacting with your Visualization

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Interacting with the mouse
  • Interacting with a multi-touch device
  • Implementing zoom and pan behavior
  • Implementing the drag behavior

Introduction

The ultimate goal of visualization design is to optimize applications so that they help us perform cognitive work more efficiently.

Ware C. (2012)

The goal of data visualization is to help the audience gain information from a large quantity of raw data quickly and efficiently through metaphor, mental model alignment, and cognitive magnification. So far in this book we have introduced various techniques to leverage D3 library implementing many types of visualization. However, we haven't touched a crucial aspect of visualization: human ...

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