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Tutorials may not be up-to-date with the latest version 4.0 of D3; consider reading them alongside the latest release notes, the 4.0 summary, and the 4.0 changes.

Introductions & Core Concepts

• Introduction
• Let’s Make a Bar Chart, Parts I, II & III
• Three Little Circles
• Thinking with Joins
• How Selections Work
• How Selections Work(Korean)
• General Update Pattern, Parts I, II & III
• Nested Selections
• Object Constancy
• Working with Transitions
• D3 Tutorials - Scott Murray
• D3 Interactive Bar Chart Tutorial - Kevin Kononenko
• Create A Bar Chart With D3 JavaScript - Vegibit
• Try D3 Now - Christophe Viau
• Getting Started with D3 Graphs - Patrick Mulder
• D3 for Mere Mortals - Luke Francl
• D3, Conceptually - Mikey Levine
• Introduction to D3 - Justin Palmer
• A tiny introduction to d3.js with Moon Phase Visualizer - palerdot
• D3.js experiments in the console - Sarah Allen
• Creating Basic Charts using d3.js - Ben Lorica
• Get dirty with data using d3.js - Clinton Montague
• For Protovis Users
• Manipulating data like a boss with d3 - Jerome Cukier
• Creating Animations and Transitions With D3 - Jerome Cukier
• Introduction to D3 and more tutorials - Andrew Davis
• d3 O'Clock: Building a Virtual Analog Clock with d3.js (Part I) - Eric S. Bullington
• How to Make an Interactive Network Visualization - Jim Vallandingham
• Learn how to make Data Visualizations with D3.js - Dashingd3js
• Introduction to d3.js and data-driven visualizations - Kenny Peng
• http://nowherenearithaca.blogspot.com/2012/06/annotating-d3-example-with-docco.html - Brad Flyon
• D3.js Tips and Tricks Blog and pdf book version and read full text online - D3noob
• Introduction to D3.js Geo - Graham Jenson
• First glance on D3.js (codecademy course) - Jiecheng
• Creating Interactive Charts with D3.js - Anthony Ilukwe
• How to handle dynamic JSON Data (enter/exit) - Pier-Olivier Thibault
• Understanding Selections - Peter Cook
• Visualize with d3js - Pance Cavkovski
• Drawing a many-to-many relationship with a simple blog-post-tag example - Vijay Chakravarthy
• Introduction to D3, with applications to big data - Sam Selikoff
• D3 Dynamic Tables with Nested Data - Lee Mendelowitz
• Getting started with D3.js - Eyal Arubas
• Visualizing Data with D3.js - Tutorials for Data Visualization Course at University of Washington (compiled by Kanit "Ham" Wongsuphasawat)
• On D3 Components by Pedram Emrouznejad
• Notes on my D3 Visualizations Development Workflow by Patrick Altman
• Introduction to D3.js(Traditional Chinese) by infographics.tw
• Learn D3.js from scratch(Italian) by Carlo
• Playing with React & D3.js by Freddy Rangel
• Introduction to D3.js (Traditional Chinese) by Kuro Hsu
• Building a chart with D3 and TypeScript by Hugues Stefanski
• From Zero to D3 by Simon Raper
• Let's Learn D3.js by Andrew Lin
• Moreal D3.js Wiki by Crypteia Networks
• 10 D3 Must Knows by Peter Cook
• Let's Make a Grid - Applying data joins, selections, and click events by Chuck Grimmett

Specific Techniques

• Path and Transform Transitions
• Let’s Make a Map
• Towards Reusable Charts
• Using Inkscape with d3 - Christophe Viau
• Pie Chart Updating with Text - Stephen Boak
• How to Make Choropleth Maps in D3 - EJ Fox
• Converting dynamic SVG to PNG with node.js, d3 and Imagemagick - Wealthfront
• Creating Animated Bubble Charts in D3 - Jim Vallandingham
• Multiple area charts with d3.js
• Creating a Polar Area Diagram - Kristopher Reese
• Smooth Transitioning of Polar Area Diagrams - Kristopher Reese
• Building a lightweight, flexible d3.js dashboard (3-part series) - Eric Seufert
• Integrating D3 with a CouchDB database - Reinhard Engel and Simon Metson
• An interactive explanation of quadtrees - Jim Kang
• An A to Z of extra features for the d3 force layout - Simon Raper
• Stream data to create realtime, live-updating D3.js charts - Ian Jennings
• Graphing memory usage in realtime using D3.js and Rickshaw - Ian Jennings
• D3 in Nodejs, for static dataviz
• An Introduction to Motion Capture Data Visualization with D3 - Omid Alemi
• Bringing SVG files to life with d3.js

D3 v4

• Let’s Make a (D3) Plugin
• Reactive visualizations with D3 v4
• A simple D3 plugin
• Notes from the Unconf 2015
• D3 in Depth (covers v4)

Blogs

• Mike Bostock
• Jan Willem Tulp
• Jérôme Cukier
• Jim Vallandingham
• Bharat Bhole
• Peter Cook
• PubNub
• infographics.tw
• neposlab.com (italian)
• Learning D3.js(Chinese)

Books

• Getting Started with D3
  Mike Dewar, O'Reilly Media, June 2012
• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
  Scott Murray, O'Reilly Media, November 2012
• Data Visualization with d3.js
  Swizec Teller, Packt Publishing, October 2013
• Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook
  Nick Qi Zhu, Packt Publishing, October 2013
• Mastering D3.js
  Pablo Navarro Castillo, Packt Publishing, August 2014
• D3.js in Action
  Elijah Meeks, Manning Publications, 2014
• Learning D3.js Mapping
  Thomas Newton, Oscar Villarreal, Packt Publishing, 2014
• Visual Storytelling with D3
  Ritchie King, Addison-Wesley, 2014
• D3 on AngularJS
  Ari Lerner + Victor Powell, Leanpub, 2014
• Data Visualization with d3.js Cookbook
• JingTong D3.js (Chinese)
  Zhihua Lv, 2015
• D3 in Depth

Courses

• Data Visualization and D3.js
  Jonathan Dinu + Ryan Orban, Udacity, 2014
• Data Visualization and Infographics with D3.js
  Alberto Cairo + Scott Murray, Knight Center, 2015

Talks and Videos

• Introduction to D3
  Curran Kelleher, Bay Area D3 Meetup, April 2015
• Free tagtree screencast - thinking with joins
  August 2014
• For Example (Write-up)
  Eyeo Festival, June 2013.
• Visualizing Data with Web Standards (Slides)
  W3Conf, November 2011.
• SVG Open Keynote (Slides)
  Microsoft Research, October 2011.
• Use the Force! (Slides)
  Trulia, September 2011.
• D3 workshop (Slides)
  VIZBI, March 2012.
• Intro to d3
  JavaScript User Group Munich, March 2012
• Simple D3.js Bar Chart Webcast
  Ian Johnson.
• Using Selections in D3 to Make Data-Driven Visualizations
  Ian Johnson.
• Visual.ly Meetup Recap: Introductory D3 Workshop
  Aleksandra Todorova, Visual.ly February 16 2011.
• First steps in data visualisation using d3.js
  Mike Dewar, New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup January 12 2012
• Data Visualization Using D3.js
  Jim McCusker, TWed talk February 2012
• An introduction to d3.js video with synced visualisation
  Philip Roberts at TechMeetup Edinburgh, November 2012
• Slides and live code from the GAFFTA d3 intro workshop
  Ian Johnson 2012
• Data Visualization with D3.js, slides and video
  Ben Clinkinbeard, NCDevCon 2012
• Design process of The Electoral Map
  Shan Carter, Big Data Think Tank December 2012
• D3.js - Data Visualisation in the Browser
  Peter Cook, Async Brighton, January 2013
• An Intro to D3.js - Data-Driven Delight
  Anna Powell-Smith, Front-End London, January 2013
• Building apps with D3.js
  Nathan Vander Wilt, CascadiaJS, November 2013
• Data visualization for the web with D3.js (English slides)
  Visualisation de données pour le web avec D3.js (French video) (French slides)
  Pablo Tamarit, Soft-Shake conference, October 2013
• Ember and D3: Building a simple dashboard
  Sam Selikoff, Boston Ember Meetup, August 2013
• D3 Layouts
  Peter Cook, Async Brighton, January 2015
• Building Interactive Data Visualizations
  Jonathan Dinu, Strata San Jose, February 2015

Meetups

• Bay Area d3 User Group
• NYC D3.js
• [London d3.js User Group] (http://lanyrd.com/series/london-d3-js/)
• Boston d3.js User Group
• Berlin Visualization Group
• Belo Horizonte d3.js User Group
• Twin Cities D3.js Meetup Group
• Boulder/Denver D3.js and Data Visualization
• Austin d3.js Meetup
• Auckland d3-js
• Bangalore d3.js User Group
• [Boulder-Denver D3.js and Data Visualization] (http://www.meetup.com/Boulder-Denver-D3-and-Data-Visualization/)
• Taipei D3.js Meetup

Research Papers

• D3: Data-Driven Documents
  Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, Jeffrey Heer
  IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2011