Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript: Scrape, Clean, Explore & Transform Your Data (pdf)

Description

As a working example, throughout the book Dale walks you through transforming Wikipedia’s table-based list of Nobel Prize winners into an interactive visualization. You’ll examine steps along the entire toolchain, from scraping, cleaning, exploring, and delivering data to building the visualization with JavaScript’s D3 library. If you’re ready to create your own web-based data visualizations—and know either Python or JavaScript— this is the book for you.

• Learn how to manipulate data with Python
• Understand the commonalities between Python and JavaScript
• Extract information from websites by using Python’s web-scraping tools, BeautifulSoup and Scrapy
• Clean and explore data with Python’s Pandas, Matplotlib, and Numpy libraries
• Serve data and create RESTful web APIs with Python’s Flask framework
• Create engaging, interactive web visualizations with JavaScript’s D3 library