Multi-Line Chart of Largest Countries

Line chart of world population over time. Data from the United Nations Population Estimates. This is example 36 from the screencast Splitting Charts.

MIT License

forked from curran's block: World Population Line Chart

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>D3 Example</title>
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js"></script>
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3-legend/1.1.0/d3-legend.js"></script>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
        
    <style>
      
      body {
        margin: 0px;
      }

.chart-line {
        fill: none;
        stroke-width: 5px;
      }
    
      .axis text {
        font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
        font-size: 12pt;
      }
      .axis .label {
        font-size: 18pt;
      }

.axis path, .axis line {
        fill: none;
        stroke: #000;
        shape-rendering: crispEdges;
      }

.color-legend text {
        font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
        font-size: 12pt;
      }

</style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script>
    
      var outerWidth = 960;
      var outerHeight = 500;
      var margin = { left: 86, top: 5, right: 5, bottom: 56 };

var xColumn = "year";
      var yColumn = "population";
      var colorColumn = "country";
      var lineColumn = colorColumn;

var xAxisLabelText = "Time";
      var xAxisLabelOffset = 48;

var yAxisLabelText = "Population";
      var yAxisLabelOffset = 60;

var innerWidth  = outerWidth  - margin.left - margin.right;
      var innerHeight = outerHeight - margin.top  - margin.bottom;

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
        .attr("width", outerWidth)
        .attr("height", outerHeight);
      var g = svg.append("g")
        .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

var xAxisG = g.append("g")
        .attr("class", "x axis")
        .attr("transform", "translate(0," + innerHeight + ")")
      var xAxisLabel = xAxisG.append("text")
        .style("text-anchor", "middle")
        .attr("transform", "translate(" + (innerWidth / 2) + "," + xAxisLabelOffset + ")")
        .attr("class", "label")
        .text(xAxisLabelText);

var yAxisG = g.append("g")
        .attr("class", "y axis");
      var yAxisLabel = yAxisG.append("text")
        .style("text-anchor", "middle")
        .attr("transform", "translate(-" + yAxisLabelOffset + "," + (innerHeight / 2) + ") rotate(-90)")
        .attr("class", "label")
        .text(yAxisLabelText);

var colorLegendG = g.append("g")
        .attr("class", "color-legend")
        .attr("transform", "translate(16, 2)");

var xScale = d3.time.scale().range([0, innerWidth]);
      var yScale = d3.scale.linear().range([innerHeight, 0]);
      var colorScale = d3.scale.category10();

// Use a modified SI formatter that uses "B" for Billion.
      var siFormat = d3.format("s");
      var customTickFormat = function (d){
        return siFormat(d).replace("G", "B");
      };

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(xScale).orient("bottom")
        .ticks(10)
        .outerTickSize(0);
      var yAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(yScale).orient("left")
        .ticks(13)
        .tickFormat(customTickFormat)
        .outerTickSize(0);

var line = d3.svg.line()
        .x(function(d) { return xScale(d[xColumn]); })
        .y(function(d) { return yScale(d[yColumn]); });

var colorLegend = d3.legend.color()
        .scale(colorScale)
        .shapePadding(3)
        .shapeWidth(15)
        .shapeHeight(15)
        .labelOffset(4);

function render(data){

xScale.domain(d3.extent(data, function (d){ return d[xColumn]; }));
        yScale.domain([0, d3.max(data, function (d){ return d[yColumn]; })]);

xAxisG.call(xAxis);
        yAxisG.call(yAxis);

var nested = d3.nest()
          .key(function (d){ return d[lineColumn]; })
          .entries(data);

colorScale.domain(nested.map(function (d){ return d.key; }));

var paths = g.selectAll(".chart-line").data(nested);
        paths.enter().append("path").attr("class", "chart-line");
        paths.exit().remove();
        paths
          .attr("d", function (d){ return line(d.values); })
          .attr("stroke", function (d){ return colorScale(d.key); });

colorLegendG.call(colorLegend);
      }

function type(d){
        d.year = new Date(d.year);
        d.population = +d.population;
        return d;
      }

d3.csv("populationByCountryByYear.csv", type, render);

</script>
  </body>
</html>

https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js

https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3-legend/1.1.0/d3-legend.js