Published: Jan. 23, 2019

d3.js (data-driven documents) is a JavaScript library that simplifies targeting web page elements and binding data to them. When used with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), HTML5, and CSS, you can create interactive, web-based data visualizations for communication, exploration, and analysis. For developers, d3.js provides methods for transforming and encoding data into easily recognizable charts and graphs. For analysts, d3 visualizations can extract meaning from abstract data and enable others to find insights and meaning. For leaders, d3 is a path to tapping into student, faculty, and university data to address stakeholder goals via data visualization, free from third-party licensing fees. In this tech talk, you will learn how to create an interactive visualization using d3.js.

Speaker: Lou Ordorica

Lou Ordorica is Senior UI/UX Technical Lead for OIT. He designs and develops friendly user experiences for faculty, staff, and students to carry out tasks faster, with less errors. His work spans course creation and web grading export using the D2L and Canvas LMS, budget reconciliation for the College of Arts & Sciences, claiming and managing university accounts in Online Identity Management, and transforming the student portal experience in the USE project. Prior to CU, Lou consulted for Fortune 100s on large-scale design projects for digital, mobile and social. For a time, he was the UI designer at a cloud security start-up that was acquired by RSA. Prior to that, Lou worked at Sun Microsystems, where he developed the user experience for developer portals, blogs, and online communities.

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