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Let's make a bar chart... editor!
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.bar {
fill: steelblue;
}
.axis text {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.x.axis path {
display: none;
}
</style>
<svg class="chart"></svg>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
// all of these variables are independent of the data, so we exclude them from the draw function
var margin = {top: 20, right: 30, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var x = d3.scale.ordinal()
.rangeRoundBands([0, width], .1);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var chart = d3.select(".chart")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
var gXAxis = chart.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")");
var gYAxis = chart.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis");
// this is the function that will be called each time we draw the chart
function draw () {
d3.tsv("data.tsv", type, function(error, data) {
// the data may have changed so we need to update the domain of our scales
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.name; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.value; })]);
// we update the axis to reflect the new scale domains
gXAxis.call(xAxis);
gYAxis.call(yAxis);
var bars = chart.selectAll(".bar").data(data);
// if there are new bars since we last called draw (or if it's the first time), we add them now
bars
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("class", "bar");
// we update the bars with new attributes based on the new data
bars
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.name); })
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.value); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.value); })
.attr("width", x.rangeBand());
// maybe some bars are not present in the new data, let's remove them!
bars.exit().remove();
});
}
function type(d) {
d.value = +d.value; // coerce to number
return d;
}
draw();
// we can call draw any number of time, axis won't be re drawn, just updated
draw();
// bars won't superpose, they'll just be updated or removed
draw();
// such is the magic of d3 data joins! http://bost.ocks.org/mike/join/
draw();
</script>
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