Building a Dashboard using Vega - Tutorial

1 · Danny Yang · May 7, 2020, midnight
In this tutorial, we will be using Vega to make an interactive map that displays COVID-19 data for each state in the US. Vega is a declarative language for creating visualizations. You simply specify a schema for the visualization in JSON format, and Vega will translate that schema into a D3 visualization. Because Vega compiles to D3, a lot of D3 concepts will transfer over - the main difference is Vega eliminates a lot of the Javascript boilerplate that is required in D3 visualizations (such as...