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Create a Bar Chart
license: mit
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.bar {
fill: #4f5cd7;
}
.bar:hover {
fill: #872814;
}
.axis--x path {
display: none;
}
</style>
<svg width="960" height="500"></svg>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script>
const svg = d3.select("svg");
const margin = {
top: 20,
right: 20,
bottom: 30,
left: 40
};
const width = Number(svg.attr("width")) - margin.left - margin.right;
const height = Number(svg.attr("height")) - margin.top - margin.bottom;
const x = d3.scaleBand().rangeRound([0, width]).padding(0.1);
const y = d3.scaleLinear().rangeRound([height, 0]);
const g = svg.append("g")
.attr("transform", `translate(${margin.left},${margin.top})`);
d3.tsv("languages.tsv", typeConversion, function(error, data) {
if (error) throw error;
x.domain(data.map(d => d.language));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, d => d.frequency)]);
g.append("g")
.attr("class", "axis axis--x")
.attr("transform", `translate(0,${height})`)
.call(d3.axisBottom(x));
g.append("g")
.attr("class", "axis axis--y")
.call(d3.axisLeft(y).ticks(10, "%"))
.append("text")
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("y", 6)
.attr("dy", "0.71em")
.attr("text-anchor", "end")
.text("Frequency");
g.selectAll(".bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("class", "bar")
.attr("x", d => x(d.language))
.attr("y", d => y(d.frequency))
.attr("width", x.bandwidth())
.attr("height", d => height - y(d.frequency))
.attr("class", "")
.attr('fill', d => d.language === 'Italian' ? '#1ac81e' : '#4f5cd7');
});
function typeConversion(d) {
d.frequency = Number(d.frequency);
return d;
}
</script>
language frequency
Spanish 0.42
Portuguese 0.15
French 0.28
Italian 0.15
Romanian 0.05
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