Learn and Understand D3.js for Data Visualization (Udemy.com)
Dive deep under the hood of D3.js. Learn core concepts and build stunning data visualizations using D3 version 7
Created by: Luis Ramirez
Last updated January 2022
What you will learn
- Create stunning data visualizations using D3 and SVG
- Understand selections to manipulate the DOM using D3
- Learn about layouts to build various charts and graphs
- Add transitions and animations to your graphs for a more interesting user experience
- Use scales to help make your visuals work on any browser or device.
- Understand the enter and exist modes in D3
- Create responsive charts and graphs
How it compares
Against the other 239 rated Udemy courses in JavaScript on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 84% of them
- Reviews1,883#64 of 240 by number of reviews
- Length9 hourslonger than 68% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2022earlier than 58% of them
Course Description
*** This course has been updated to use the latest version of D3 - Version 7.x ****
Hello! Welcome to the D3.js development course. This is the most comprehensive and effective course on D3 around. This is the only course you'll ever need to learn D3.
The goal of this course is to not just teach you D3 (v7.x), but help you understand D3. D3 is a JavaScript library that allows you to build data visualizations easily. The library is absolutely massive and you can create any kind of data visualization you can imagine. With such a massive library, it can be difficult to grasp a lot of the concepts.
By the end of this course, you'll be more than comfortable using D3 and build awesome visualizations. Here is just some of the things you can expect to learn.
Learn about D3 selections which are used to select and manipulate elements on your document.
Get a basic overview of SVG. This is something courses skip over. By having a solid foundation of SVG, then you can make more optimal decisions for your visualizations.
Learn about scales which help you by converting your data into values that can be used to properly display your data. We'll learn about the linear, quantize, quantile, threshold, log, color, and a whole lot of other scales in this course.
Builds various graphs such as bar graphs, pie charts, scatter plots, histograms, line charts, and so much more!
Add interactivity and animation to your graphs to make them more interesting and appealing to the user.
Builds responsive graphs. Your visualizations will work on any device with a few simple tricks.
This course focuses on the latest version of D3. (version 7.x)
This is just some of the topics that will be covered. If you want to take ONE COURSE to learn everything you need to know to be successful D3 developer, take this course.
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
1,883 Reviews
Luis Ramirez
Luis is a software engineer with a decade of experience in web application development. He has spent his career architecting solutions that are reliable, battle-tested, secure, scalable, and performant. As an engineer, it's always a priority to develop applications that provide a fluid user experience.
Most courses will teach you the "how," but never the "why." Luis believes that understanding core and critical concepts in programming will make you a competitive engineer in today's market. He's here to assist you in this journey by demystifying low-level concepts that other instructors may gloss over.
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Reviews
By Jeremie Beluche on 1/7/2026
It was a great course for learning D3. The instructor was clear and efficient, explaining what he was doing without dragging things out. D3 is still a challenging topic, and at times you may wonder what’s happening, but seeing many different types of charts really helped. I would have liked a few more hands-on challenges to practice what I learned, though I can now do that on my own by building my own charts. Thank you!
By Python Learner on 10/20/2022
It s a well structured course with a moderate (just about needed) reference to D3 manual. This course should be graded as 'must have beginner course' since you wont be building complicated charts and groups of charts. But you will get a solid understanding of main ideas and tools used in D3. I came to this course from Youtube teaser and i ve got what i ve expected.
By Mark Spain on 10/19/2020
This was a great course and is packed full of examples on how to use D3.
By Peter Szabo on 10/12/2020
Really similiar to the Datavisualization with D3 course on Udacity, maybe more basics, like SVG
By Sruthi Mk on 10/3/2020
good
By Marsel Gray on 10/2/2020
I felt this course could have better. The instructor would move very fast through the lectures and it was difficult to follow at times with him jumping around and copy/pasting stuff.
By Andreas Harms on 9/25/2020
Zwischenbewertung nach dem 1/3 (33%): Excellent, gute Erluterung, gute bungen
By Jeffrey Wilkinson on 9/3/2020
This is a wonderful course that I highly recommend to others who want to get a deeper understanding of how to use D3 for data visualisation. The course goes beyond the basics and details how to work with the intricacies of the core D3 charting tools. I hope he produces more courses on the same topics and provides just as much detail on other types of charts and visualisations.
By Shashwat Tiwari on 8/13/2020
This is the best course for d3, available on the internet ( at least for me ). I was able to understand everything very easily and unlike many other educators/courses, this course is very professionally made. Worth every penny!
By Bohdan Baida on 7/4/2020
Very good tutorial series.
Thank you!
By Lucas on 6/16/2020
good for graphics, basic geojson map, but no topojson which is why i put 3 star, i was disapponted.
By Guilherme Viegas on 6/10/2020
Very good course, well taught. Although, I would even happier if the code from the the beginning and end of the class were better provided, a github repo would be great. Also, more examples with advanced graphs would also be nice. The overall is extremely positive, though. I would recommend to anyone learning D3.js.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100







