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Posted by louiecamacho
louiecamacho
10,980 Points

Please point me to the right track.

I'm looking to create things like this. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/23/sunday-review/an-overview-of-the-euro-crisis.html?_r=0

Where should I start? Thanks!

3 Answers

Boyan Angelov
Boyan Angelov
26,485 Points
Boyan Angelov
Boyan Angelov
26,485 Points

Knowledge of CSS and some Adobe Illustrator should be sufficient for this. For the labels to appear on hover probably jQuery is used.

Courses on treehouse:

CSS Foundations / Illustrator Fundamentals / Build an interactive website deep dive

Hope this was helpful :)

louiecamacho
louiecamacho
10,980 Points
louiecamacho
louiecamacho
10,980 Points

Thanks, so I can have the labels follow the cursor with simple jQuery?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Creating interactive charts is a pretty advanced topic, you can use a combination of D3 (a JavaScript library), SVG, Canvas and a bit of JQuery to tie it all together.

If you check out the source, you'll note it was built with SVG, there aren't any courses for that here on Treehouse.