(Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series) 1st Edition
by Maya Gans (Author), Toby Hodges (Author), Greg Wilson (Author)
JavaScript is the native language of the Internet. Originally created
to make web pages more dynamic, it is now used for software projects of
all kinds, including scientific visualization and data services.
However, most data scientists have little or no experience with
JavaScript, and most introductions to the language are written for
people who want to build shopping carts rather than share maps of coral
reefs.
This book will introduce you to JavaScript's power and
idiosyncrasies and guide you through the key features of the language
and its tools and libraries. The book places equal focus on client- and
server-side programming, and shows readers how to create interactive web
content, build and test data services, and visualize data in the
browser. Topics include:
- The core features of modern JavaScript
- Creating templated web pages
- Making those pages interactive using React
- Data visualization using Vega-Lite
- Using Data-Forge to wrangle tabular data
- Building a data service with Express
- Unit testing with Mocha
