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A bar chart.

name value
brianf 4.97
bmayhew 3.82
dho 3.93
jcorman 2.66
jswank 3.73
kgardner 4.91
mfilosa 4.52
psutela 3.20
pvolkman 1.97
rberg 0.48
schauhan 1.26
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<body>
<div id="chart"></div>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
function renderChart(data) {
var valueLabelWidth = 40; // space reserved for value labels (right)
var barHeight = 20; // height of one bar
var barLabelWidth = 100; // space reserved for bar labels
var barLabelPadding = 5; // padding between bar and bar labels (left)
var gridLabelHeight = 18; // space reserved for gridline labels
var gridChartOffset = 3; // space between start of grid and first bar
var maxBarWidth = 420; // width of the bar with the max value
// accessor functions
var barLabel = function(d) { return d['name']; };
var barValue = function(d) { return parseFloat(d['value']); };
// scales
var yScale = d3.scale.ordinal().domain(d3.range(0, data.length)).rangeBands([0, data.length * barHeight]);
var y = function(d, i) { return yScale(i); };
var yText = function(d, i) { return y(d, i) + yScale.rangeBand() / 2; };
var x = d3.scale.linear().domain([0, 10]).range([0, maxBarWidth]);
// svg container element
var chart = d3.select('#chart').append("svg")
.attr('width', maxBarWidth + barLabelWidth + valueLabelWidth)
.attr('height', gridLabelHeight + gridChartOffset + data.length * barHeight);
// grid line labels
var gridContainer = chart.append('g')
.attr('transform', 'translate(' + barLabelWidth + ',' + gridLabelHeight + ')');
gridContainer.selectAll("text").data(x.ticks(10)).enter().append("text")
.attr("x", x)
.attr("dy", -3)
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.text(String);
// vertical grid lines
gridContainer.selectAll("line").data(x.ticks(10)).enter().append("line")
.attr("x1", x)
.attr("x2", x)
.attr("y1", 0)
.attr("y2", yScale.rangeExtent()[1] + gridChartOffset)
.style("stroke", "#ccc");
// bar labels
var labelsContainer = chart.append('g')
.attr('transform', 'translate(' + (barLabelWidth - barLabelPadding) + ',' + (gridLabelHeight + gridChartOffset) + ')');
labelsContainer.selectAll('text').data(data).enter().append('text')
.attr('y', yText)
.attr('stroke', 'none')
.attr('fill', 'black')
.attr("dy", ".35em") // vertical-align: middle
.attr('text-anchor', 'end')
.text(barLabel);
// bars
var barsContainer = chart.append('g')
.attr('transform', 'translate(' + barLabelWidth + ',' + (gridLabelHeight + gridChartOffset) + ')');
barsContainer.selectAll("rect").data(data).enter().append("rect")
.attr('y', y)
.attr('height', yScale.rangeBand())
.attr('width', function(d) { return x(barValue(d)); })
.attr('stroke', 'white')
.attr('fill', 'steelblue');
// bar value labels
barsContainer.selectAll("text").data(data).enter().append("text")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(barValue(d)); })
.attr("y", yText)
.attr("dx", 3) // padding-left
.attr("dy", ".35em") // vertical-align: middle
.attr("text-anchor", "start") // text-align: right
.attr("fill", "black")
.attr("stroke", "none")
.text(function(d) { return d3.round(barValue(d), 2); });
// start line
barsContainer.append("line")
.attr("y1", -gridChartOffset)
.attr("y2", yScale.rangeExtent()[1] + gridChartOffset)
.style("stroke", "#000");
}
d3.tsv("data.csv", null, function(error, data) {
renderChart(data);
});
</script>
</body>
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