Category: Data Visualization
How to Deploy D3.js visualization or any .html to heroku
10 steps process to deploy a .html website to Heroku, run these commands on the terminal and make sure you have a Heroku account
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- Get to the directory: cd YOUR_DIRECTORY
- Rename the file to home.html: mv index.html home.html
- Create index.php with the line: echo ‘<? include_once(“home.html”);?>’ > index.php
- Create empty composer file: echo ‘{}’ > composer.json
- git init
- sudo git add .
- sudo git commit -m “deploying static–err, dynamic site to heroku”
- heroku login
- login with your credentials
- heroku apps: create YOUR_APP_NAME
- git push Heroku master
- sudo git add .
- git commit -m “a helpful message”
- git push heroku master
How to Embed D3.js visualizations in WordPress blog using iFrames
You need to do 2 things before Embedding any D3.js visualization to your self-hosted WordPress blog
- Install the iFrame plugin for WordPress.
- Host your d3.js visualisation somewhere (so that you can access your visualisation through URL, preferably Heroku: 5 minute process)
After you are done with these two steps just use the iframe tag in the text:
<iframe src=”YOUR_COMPLETE_URL” width=”2000″ height=”800″></iframe>
Optional with Frame Border, Margin Width, Margin Height
<iframe src=”YOUR_COMPLETE_URL” width=”2000″ height=”800″ frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″></iframe>
Example:
Best Data Visualization Resources
Data Visualization Websites Online
- Juice Analytics
- Silk
- Datawrapper
- Polychart
- Plotly
- DataHero
- Number Picture
- Weave
- Datavisual
- Zoomdata (via the cloud platforms)
- RAW
Software
- Tableau
- SAP Lumira (including a free Personal Edition version)
- Microsoft Excel (or any other spreadsheet that includes charts)
- ClearStory
- BeyondCore
- Mathematica
- MATLAB
- MatPlotLib (if you are comfortable programming Python)
- R Programming Language
- ggplot2
Google Data Studio dashboarding and reporting tool
The new Dashboarding and reporting tool Google Data Studio which was launched in 2016 is now available for free for small business earlier it was limited to 5 data reports, now the limit has been lifted from 5 to unlimited.
Data Studio turns your data into informative Dashboards and Reports which you can read, easy to share, and fully customizable. With Dashboarding you can tell great data stories to support better business decisions.
“ To enable more businesses to get full value from Data Studio we are making an important change — we are removing the 5 report limit in Data Studio. You now create and share as many reports as you need — all for free. “