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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Adjusting the horizontal and the vertical placement of the bars

Our bars all overlap one another at the moment. Let's space them out by mapping x's position to index in the data array. Add the following to the bottom of the AJAX callback:

var xScale = d3.scaleLinear(); xScale.range([0, WIDTH]); xScale.domain([0, data.length]); d3.selectAll('rect') .attr('x', function(datum, index){ return xScale(index); });

This maps indices in the array to horizontal range points. Chrome should look as follows:

Now let's move the bars so they grow from the bottom, as opposed to hanging from the top. Add the following to the end of the AJAX callback:

d3.selectAll('rect')
.attr('y', function(datum, index){
return yScale(datum.count);
});

Using our yScale function, a high data value produces a low range value, which doesn&apos...

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