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Expert Data Visualization

You're reading from   Expert Data Visualization Advanced information visualization with D3.js 4.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463494
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jos Dirksen Jos Dirksen
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Preface 1. Getting Started with D3 2. Basic Charts and Shapes FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Hierarchical Data 4. Visualizing Graphs 5. Working with Geo Data 6. Visualizing Streaming Data 7. Voronoi Diagrams and Heatmaps 8. Custom Shapes and Paths and Using a Brush Selection 9. ES6, TypeScript, and External D3.js Libraries

Simple streaming line

For our first example, we're going to create two simple streaming lines. The result we'll be aiming for is the following (which you can see by opening up the DVD3/src/chapter-06/D06-01.html example):

In this image, we have got two horizontal lines which move from the right of the screen to the left. Whenever you move your mouse, the distance traveled is stored and rendered as two lines. Each point in the graph represents the total distance traveled along the x-axis or the y-axis. The bottom of this graph is a simple axis which shows the current time, and which moves together with the line graph.

To accomplish this graph, we need to take the following steps:

  1. The first thing we need to do is define the various scales which we can use for rendering the scale at the bottom, and which we use to determine the x and y positions of each graph element.
  2. When we've got the scales, we...
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