Regression Line

Applying linear regression to the Party Trend chart.

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                display: none;
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                fill: none;
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circle.dot {
                fill: #FFF !important;
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        <script src="d3.min.js?v=3.2.8"></script>
        <script src="https://rawgithub.com/tmcw/simple-statistics/master/src/simple_statistics.js?v=0.8.0"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript"charset="utf-8">
            // Settings
            var width = 440,
                height = 400,
                padding = 30;

var margin = {
                'top': 30,
                'right': 125,
                'bottom': 30,
                'left': 30
            };

margin.hor = margin.left + margin.right;
            margin.ver = margin.top + margin.bottom;

// Config
            var dataset = "data.csv",
                parseDate = d3.time.format("%m/%d/%Y").parse,
                electionDate = "",  // "05/15/2015",
                yAxisTitle = "Votes (%)",
                dateValue = "Date",
                instituteValue = "Polling Firm"
                showLineChart = false,
                showAllParties = false;
                if (showAllParties === false) {
                    var parties = ["A"];
                }
                var displayInstitutes = (showAllParties === false && parties.length === 1) ? true : false;

var ignoreFilter = [
                "Lead",
                "Red (A+B+F+Ø)",
                "Blue (V+O+I+C+K)",
                "Polling Firm"
            ]
            ignoreFilter.push(dateValue);

var x = d3.time.scale()
                .range([0, width]);

var y = d3.scale.linear()
                .range([height, 0]);

var color = d3.scale.category10();
            var instituteColor = d3.scale.category10();

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
                .scale(x)
                .orient("bottom")
                .ticks(7)
                .tickSubdivide(2);

var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
                .scale(y)
                .orient("left")
                .tickFormat(function(d) { return d + "%"; });

var line = d3.svg.line()
                // .interpolate("linear")
                .x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
                .y(function(d) { return y(d.dataValue); });

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                    .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

d3.csv(dataset, function(error, data) {
                color.domain(
                    d3.keys(data[0])
                    .filter(function(key) {
                        if (ignoreFilter.indexOf(key) === -1) return key;
                    }));

instituteColor.domain(
                    d3.nest().key(function(d) {
                        return d[instituteValue];
                    })
                    .entries(data)
                    .map(function(d) { return d.key; })
                );

data.forEach(function(d) {
                    d.date = parseDate(d[dateValue]);
                });

if (electionDate === "") {
                    x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) {
                        return d.date; }));
                } else {
                    x.domain([
                        d3.min(data, function(d) { return d.date; }),
                        parseDate(electionDate)
                    ]);
                }
                y.domain([
                    0, d3.max(valueColumns, function(c) { return d3.max(c.values, function(v) { return v.dataValue; }); })
                ]);

if (showAllParties === false && parties.length === 1) {
                // Linear regression
                var regLine = ss.linear_regression().data(data.map(function(d) {
                    return [+d.date, parseFloat(d[parties[0]])];
                })).line();

// Create a line based on the beginning and endpoints of the range
                var regLineData = x.domain().map(function(x) {  // change if electionDate
                    return {
                        date: x,
                        dataValue: regLine(x)
                    };
                });
            }

/**
            if (showAllParties === false && parties.length === 1) {
                y.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) {
                    return d[parties[0]];
                }))
            }
            else {
                y.domain([
                    0, d3.max(valueColumns, function(c) { return d3.max(c.values, function(v) { return v.dataValue; }); })
                ]);
            }
        */
                // Append x axis
                svg.append("g")
                    .attr({
                        "class": "x axis",
                        "transform": "translate(0," + height + ")"
                    })
                    .call(xAxis);

// Append y axis
                svg.append("g")
                    .attr("class", "y axis")
                    .call(yAxis)
                    .append("text")
                        .attr({
                            "transform": "rotate(-90)",
                            "y": 6,
                            "dy": ".71em"
                        })
                        .style("text-anchor", "end")
                        .text(yAxisTitle);

// Gridlines
                //
                // https://www.d3noob.org/2013/01/adding-grid-lines-to-d3js-graph.html
                 svg.append("g")
                    .attr({
                        "class": "grid",
                        "transform": "translate(0," + height + ")"
                    })
                    .call(xAxis
                        .tickSize(-height, 0, 0)
                        .tickFormat("")
                        .ticks(d3.time.months, 1)
                    );

// Graph
                // Create graph
                var graph = svg.selectAll(".graph")
                    .data(valueColumns.filter(function(d) {
                        return showAllParties === true ? d.name : parties.indexOf(d.name) !== -1;
                    }))
                    .enter().append("g")
                        .attr("class", "graph");

if (showLineChart === true) {
                // "Connect the dots"
                graph.append("path")
                    .attr({
                        "class": "line",
                        "d": function(d) { return line(d.values); }
                    })
                    .style("stroke", function(d) {
                        return (showAllParties === false && parties.length === 1) ? "#777" : color(d.name);
                    });
            }

// Add dots
                var dots = svg.selectAll(".dot")
                    .data(valueColumns.filter(function(d) {
                        return showAllParties === true ? d.name : parties.indexOf(d.name) !== -1;
                    }))
                    .enter()

if (showAllParties === false && parties.length === 1) {
                // Regression line
                svg.append("path")
                    .datum(regLineData)
                    .attr({
                        "class": "reg",
                        "d": line
                    })
                    .style("stroke", "777");
            }

var legendSize = 18,
                    legendSpacing = 20,
                    legendData = displayInstitutes === false ? color.domain().slice() : instituteColor.domain().slice();
                var legend = svg.selectAll(".legend")
                    // Change for all-chart
                    .data(legendData)
                    .enter().append("g")
                        .attr("class", "legend")
                        .attr("transform", function(d, i) { return "translate(" + 0 + "," + i * (legendSize + 2) + ")"; });

legend.append("rect")
                        .attr("x", width + legendSpacing)
                        .attr("width", legendSize)
                        .attr("height", legendSize)
                        .style("fill", function(d) {
                            return (displayInstitutes === false) ? color : instituteColor(d);
                            });

legend.append("text")
                        .attr("x", width + legendSpacing + legendSize + 6)
                        .attr("y", legendSize/2)
                        .attr("dy", ".35em")
                        .style("text-anchor", "start")
                        .text(function(d) { return d; });
            });
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