Chapter 12. Know your Map

In this chapter we will cover:

  • Projecting the US map
  • Projecting the world map
  • Building a choropleth map

Introduction

The ability to project and correlate data points to geographic regions is crucial in many types of visualizations. Geographic visualization is a complex topic with many competing standards emerging and maturing for today's web technology. D3 provides few different ways to visualize geographic and cartographic data. In this chapter we will introduce basic D3 cartographic visualization techniques and how to implement a fully-functional choropleth map (a special purpose colored map) in D3.

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