Interactive Data Visualization for the Web By Scott Murray

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web by Scott Murray from O'Reilly Media is an excellent book on get started on D3 for data visualization. The book starts off with overview on web technology, specifically on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The author then follow the natural mind set to construct a graph from a dataset. Step by step, the power of D3 on data visualization is present to user. Particularly for me, the chapter 5, data, help me grasp the core of D3 to interact with data. Furthermore, the free online version has example readily available for reader to play around to enforce the learning. I will highly recommend this book for anyone want to learn d3 library.