Data Visualization + D3.js
Learn how to create interactive, engaging experiences using HTML, CSS, SVG and Javascript.
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Our Data Visualization course focuses on the practical aspects of working with data. In our 6-week long course, we’ll cover the basics of storytelling and working with data in a creative, fun way. You’ll learn how to create interactive, engaging experiences using HTML, CSS, SVG and Javascript.
This course, aimed at beginners, will teach you how to work with data and choose the right visuals to represent it effectively. We’ll introduce the basics of the powerful D3.js library used to animate and add interactions to your charts and graphs. You’ll also learn how to pull data from the web using Ajax.
You don’t need to be a designer or experienced coder to join the course but a little knowledge of HTML and CSS will help.
What you’ll learn
The different types of data visualizations and how to use them effectively
How to work with and understand data sets and turn them into engaging experiences
How to use HTML, CSS, SVG to design charts and graphs
How to use Javascript to add animations, transitions and interactions to your experiences
An introduction to the fundamentals of the powerful Javascript library D3.js
Using Ajax to pull data from the web into your visualizations
18 hours of video lessons – Practical, go-at-your-own pace learning
Access the community – Join our Slack and connect with thousands of SuperHi students and alumni
Continued help – Help from our expert teachers and educators with years of experience in the industry
Real world projects – Projects and code that you can alter and remix to add to your own sites and portfolio
Resources – Resources to get you started and going post-course
Homework exercises – Test your knowledge with exercises based on the course projects
Anyone who is looking for ways to work with data-driven design or work closer with designers to implement beautiful visualizations of data.
We would recommend a little knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript before starting this course. Reading our Learn To Code Now book or taking either Foundation HTML, CSS + JS will be sufficient.
A computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) with the latest version of Chrome installed and a broadband internet connection. That’s it!
Want to try our teaching before signing up? Join our free 'Plan, Design + Code Your First Website' course!
Syllabus
Kiddo Kiddo
In this brand new project investigating the popularity of baby names, we cover how to work with different scales, incomplete lines and how to change our data visualization based on our users' search results.
Boundless
With D3, we can quickly add in more complex shapes such as arcs and pies. In the Boundless project, we add a pie chart that updates every half-second with an interval loop to visually showcase browser usage over the last 10 years.
Stockfinder
Previously, all the data used has been static – we only see changes to our designs when we change our data – but in this project, we add in live data that can change based on real-life information such as Apple's stock price.
Population Densities of the World
In the last project of the course, we cover how to add in geographic maps and how to apply data to countries within our map, as we look at visualizing population densities around the world.
Heat Map
In Heat Map, we discuss how to take more complex data and turn it into a vibrant visualization featuring hover effects, a temperature scale changer and our first look at line graphs.
Step Count
In the first project of the course, we'll lay out our Step Count project using HTML and CSS, plus introduce SVG tags to draw our data visualizations. Then, we'll add transitions with delays and easing, talk about the importance of grouping, and use D3's array functions to save us time!
Discover the World
In this project, we use a scattergraph-style visualization to compare data in two dimensions. We also add in transitions on updated data, add in axes and talk about responsive designs.
The Top
After a debate within the SuperHi team, we test to see if movies that are popular with fans correlate with popularity with the critics by using scores from fan-scored IMDb and critic-scored Metacritic in week 4's project, The Top.
Your instructors
Our instructors have decades of professional experience, have spoken at international conferences and have won countless web design awards.
Rik Lomas
Rik (he/him) is a Mancunian coder, teacher and CEO of SuperHi. He was the co-founder of Steer (a code school in London) and has taught several thousand people to code. He is a bit too old to be posting memes on our social media and recently featured as a Sour Patch Kid in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.
Kristen Altomare-Ciallella
Kristen is a Toronto-based senior visual designer at Glitch, a site for making websites from scratch. She previously worked for as a visual designer for SuperHi, Nike and Huge.
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FAQs
If you're comfortable working with a computer, then yes!
Learning new and improving your existing skills is about being patient with yourself, building up your knowledge, developing confidence through practice, and with time. We've seen our students around the world do it, and so can you.
Our beginner courses are designed for people new to the subjects. They grow your understanding so you grasp everything you need to start applying your new skills and will also give you a path to dig deeper if you want.
Our teaching style is practical and straightforward and you'll have support from our expert instructors and community for as long as you need.
Still not sure if learning to code is right for you? Take our free Plan, Design + Code Your First Website course or dive into our First Steps to Code guide.
We have quite a lot of students that join us and have done some coding before but want to build up confidence and techniques.
In order to help get you where you'd like to be, have a look at the sites below to see which course you can make from scratch, without any help at all.
Baker & Brown – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, don't worry! We recommend you start off with our Foundation, HTML, CSS + Javascript course.
Jenna Buchholz – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, it's all good! We recommend you start off with our Javascript for Designers course.
Super Shapes – If you struggle to make this website from scratch, have no fear! We recommend you start off with our Advanced CSS + Javascript course.
All of our courses are unlocked and available for students to start their learning and go at their own pace. We do have a suggested weekly structure for some courses, which helps some students stay on track. However, you're definitely free to jump ahead or take as long as you need!
As soon as you checkout and pay, you'll have all the courses you paid for, in your student dashboard available to you immediately. If you're busy and can't start right away - no worries, you can pick it back up later.
At SuperHi, we provide online courses designed for creatives and made for everyone. Take a course on Code, Design, or Project Management 😊
The proof is in the pudding! Our students go on to make their own beautiful sites and some of their stunning work have won digital design awards. Take a look at our Hall of Fame to see some of the sites our students have built, many of which had only taken our Foundation course!
If you're a SuperHi student or alumni and would like to submit your project to be included in our Hall of Fame, please feel free to submit it here.
Yes, we do! All you'd need to do is send the links to your completed projects over to hi@superhi.com at the end of your course. We will review them, provide feedback if necessary, and then issue your certificate!
All our course videos are taught using the SuperHi Editor, but you'll be able to apply everything you'll learn to a code editor of your choice. Many students go on to use other code editors, for example, if their workplace has an existing standard.
Our SuperHi Editor is designed with many smart features to help avoid wasted time looking for things like a typo or missing bracket (which is why we made it!), but the same code concepts apply to any editor.
Yes! You can use your own custom third-party domains and connect them to your sites built with our SuperHi Editor. Additionally, all SuperHi sites come with free SSL Certificates for added protection.
Here's more information on how to connect a third-party domain