The grammar of graphics: demystifying data visualisation with d3

This talk will walk through some of the principles of data visualisation described in The Grammar of Graphics and show how they’ve informed some key features of the JavaScript library d3.

Alastair Dant is an experienced software developer, focused on interactive news and visual journalism. Now at The New York Times, he escaped the world of enterprise Java to record the sounds of cities on interactive maps, develop a popular cartoon monster game and build an award-winning team at the Guardian.