Josh On Design

Thanks to my HTML Canvas Deep Dive at OSCON, .net Magazine asked me to write a tutorial for them. The topic was just something interesting with Canvas. I'm a huge fan of infographics, as well as .net Magazine, so I jumped at the chance to write for them. I recently discovered an amazing treasure trove of data at the World dataBank, so that formed the core of the article.

My tutorial will take you from drawing a few shapes using canvas to processing real data from CSV files, then finally adding some interactivity and sprucing up the graphics. It should take you about one hour to complete, and if you know basic JavaScript then you're all set. It was a lot of fun to write. I hope you enjoy it.

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