JavaScript for Data Science (pdf)

Description

This book will introduce you to JavaScript’s power and idiosyncrasies and guide you through the key features of the language and its tools and libraries. The book places equal focus on client- and server-side programming, and shows readers how to create interactive web content, build and test data services, and visualize data in the browser. Topics include:

• The core features of modern JavaScript

• Creating templated web pages

• Making those pages interactive using React

• Data visualization using Vega-Lite

• Using Data-Forge to wrangle tabular data

• Building a data service with Express

• Unit testing with Mocha

All of the material is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC-4.0) and is included in the book’s companion website.