Chart Types

A bar chart showing the number of search results for a set of visualization techniques. Each term was entered into Google and the number of results for each was recorded by hand.

forked from curran's block: Religions Bar 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>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Playfair+Display' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3-tip/0.6.3/d3-tip.min.js"></script>
    <style>
    
      .axis text {
        font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif;
        font-size: 18pt;
      }
      .axis .label {
        font-size: 40pt;
      }

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

.tooltip {
        font-family: 'Playfair Display', serif;
        font-size: 24pt;

/* This trick adds a heavy white shadow around the text. */
        text-shadow: 
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white,
          0px 0px 6px white;

/* This eliminates the possibility of flickering tooltips. */
        pointer-events: none;
      }

</style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script>

var outerWidth = 960;
      var outerHeight = 500;
      var margin = { left: 240, top: 0, right: 89, bottom: 101 };
      var barPadding = 0.2;
      var barPaddingOuter = 0.1;

var xColumn = "results";
      var yColumn = "name";
      var xAxisLabelText = "# Search Results";
      var xAxisLabelOffset = 80;

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("x", innerWidth / 2)
        .attr("y", xAxisLabelOffset)
        .attr("class", "label")
        .text(xAxisLabelText);
      var yAxisG = g.append("g")
        .attr("class", "y axis");

var tooltip = svg.append("text").attr("class", "tooltip");

var xScale = d3.scale.linear().range([0, innerWidth]);
      var yScale = d3.scale.ordinal().rangeRoundBands([0, innerHeight], barPadding, barPaddingOuter);

// Use D3's number format that generates SI prefixes for the X axis.
      // See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_SI_prefixes
      var siFormat = d3.format("s");
      function tickFormat(num){
        // Replace the confusing G (for Giga) with 
        // the more recognizable B (for Billion).
        return siFormat(num).replace("G", "B");
      }

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(xScale).orient("bottom")
        .ticks(5)
        .tickFormat(tickFormat)
        .outerTickSize(0);
      var yAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(yScale).orient("left")
        .outerTickSize(0);

var tooltipFormat = d3.format(",");
      function showTooltip(d){
        tooltip.text(tooltipFormat(d[xColumn]) + " search results")
          .attr("x", d3.event.pageX + 20)		
          .attr("y", d3.event.pageY);	
      }
      function hideTooltip(){
        tooltip.text("");
      }

function render(data){

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

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

var bars = g.selectAll("rect").data(data);
        bars.enter().append("rect")
          .attr("height", yScale.rangeBand())
          .on("mouseover", showTooltip)
          .on("mousemove", showTooltip)
          .on("mouseout", hideTooltip);
        bars
          .attr("x", 0)
          .attr("y",     function (d){ return yScale(d[yColumn]); })
          .attr("width", function (d){ return xScale(d[xColumn]); });
        bars.exit().remove();
      }

function type(d){
        d.results = +d.results;
        return d;
      }

d3.csv("data.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-tip/0.6.3/d3-tip.min.js