Another example of a surplus/deficit filled line chart. The colour of each section encodes the party that was in power during that period. Uses d3-annotation for labels on hover.
See Surplus/deficit filled line I for how I use a mask colour deficit and surplus areas separately.
This is part of a series of visualisations called My Visual Vocabulary which aims to recreate every visualisation in the FT's Visual Vocabulary from scratch using D3.
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<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="d3-annotation.min.js"></script>
<style>
body { margin:0; position:fixed; top:0; right:0; bottom:0; left:0; }
.surplus-deficit-area {
fill: black;
opacity: 0.1;
}
.surplus-deficit-line {
fill: none;
stroke: black;
}
.title {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
.annotation-note text {
fill: black;
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
.annotation-connector path {
stroke: black;
}
rect.annotation-note-bg {
fill-opacity: 0.75;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script>
var margin = {top: 100, right: 100, bottom: 100, left: 100};
var width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
var defs = svg.append("defs");
var parseYear = d3.timeParse("%Y");
var parseDate = d3.timeParse("%d-%m-%Y");
var partyToColour = {
"Labour": "#d50000",
"Conservative": "#0087dc",
"Conservative & Liberal Democrat": "#0087dc"
};
var x = d3.scaleTime()
.range([0, width]);
var y = d3.scaleLinear()
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.axisBottom()
.scale(x);
var yAxis = d3.axisLeft()
.scale(y);
function parseBudgetDeficit(d) {
return {
date: parseYear(d.year),
deficit: +d.deficit_percent
};
}
function parseGovernments(d) {
return {
party: d.party,
leader: d.leader,
startDate: parseDate(d.start),
endDate: parseDate(d.end)
}
}
var area = d3.area()
.x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.y1(function(d) { return y(d.deficit); });
var line = d3.line()
.x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.y(function(d) { return y(d.deficit); });
d3.queue()
.defer(d3.csv, "budget-deficit-gdp.csv", parseBudgetDeficit)
.defer(d3.csv, "governments.csv", parseGovernments)
.await(ready);
function ready(error, data, govs) {
if (error) throw error;
x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.date; }));
y.domain([Math.floor(d3.min(data, function(d) { return d.deficit; })),
Math.ceil(d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.deficit; }))]);
govs = govs.filter(function(g) {
return g.startDate < x.domain()[1];
});
area.y0(y(0));
defs.append("mask")
.attr("id", "deficitMask")
.append("path")
.attr("d", function() {
return area(data);
})
.attr("fill", "white")
.attr("opacity", 0.8);
defs.append("clipPath")
.attr("id", "clipAxes")
.append("rect")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var governments = svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "governments")
.attr("clip-path", "url(#clipAxes)");
governments.selectAll("rect")
.data(govs)
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("x", function(d) {
return x(d.startDate);
})
.attr("y", 0)
.attr("width", function(d, i) {
return x(d.endDate) - x(d.startDate) + 0.2;
})
.attr("height", height)
.attr("fill", function(d) {
return partyToColour[d.party];
})
.attr("mask", "url(#deficitMask)")
.on("mouseover", function(d) {
showLabel(d);
})
.on("mouseout", function() {
// should think of a better way of doing this
// ideally should be showing/hiding not appending/removing
d3.select(".annotation-group").remove();
})
svg.append("path")
.datum(data)
.attr("class", "surplus-deficit-line")
.attr("d", line)
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("text")
.attr("class", "title")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + width / 2 + ",0)")
.attr("dy", "-2em")
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.text("UK government deficit / surplus as percentage of GDP");
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis);
function showLabel(g) {
var annotations = [{
note: {
label: g.leader,
title: g.party
},
data: {
start: g.startDate,
end: g.endDate,
},
subject: {
x1: x(g.startDate),
x2: x(g.endDate)
},
dy: -50,
dx: 10
}]
var makeAnnotations = d3.annotation()
.type(d3.annotationXYThreshold)
.accessors({
x: function(d) {
return (x(d.start) + x(d.end)) / 2;
},
y: function() {
return y(0);
}
})
.annotations(annotations);
var annotationsGroup = svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "annotation-group")
.call(makeAnnotations);
}
}
</script>
</body>
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