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D3.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   D3.js Quick Start Guide Create amazing, interactive visualizations in the browser with JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342383
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Matthew Huntington Matthew Huntington
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Preface 1. Getting Started with D3.js 2. Using SVG to Create Images Using Code FREE CHAPTER 3. Building an Interactive Scatter Plot 4. Making a Basic Scatter Plot Interactive 5. Creating a Bar Graph Using a Data File 6. Animating SVG Elements to Create an Interactive Pie Chart 7. Using Physics to Create a Force-Directed Graph 8. Mapping 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Formatting the data for the arc

The reason that our arc() function won't work is the data isn't formatted properly for the function. The arc function that we generated expects the data object to have things like a start angle, an end angle, and so on. Fortunately, D3 can reformat our data so that it will work with our generated arc() function. To do this, we'll generate a pie function that will take a dataset and add the necessary attributes to it for the start angle, end angle, and so on. Add the following just before the code for var path =d3.select('g').selectAll('path')...:

var pie = d3.pie()
    .value(function(d) { return d.count; }) //use the 'count' property each value in the original array to determine how big the piece of pie should be
    .sort(null); //don't sort the values

Our pie variable is a function that takes...

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