D3 Examples - Line Chart

Line Chart

This simple line chart is constructed from a TSV file storing the closing value of AAPL stock over the last few years. The chart employs conventional margins and a number of D3 features:

This also uses simple-statistics to derive a linear regression of the price changes.

d3.tsv - load and parse data

d3.time.format - parse dates

d3.time.scale - x-position encoding

d3.scale.linear - y-position encoding

d3.extent - compute domains

d3.svg.axis - display axes

d3.svg.line - display line shape

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
​
body {
  font: 10px sans-serif;
}
​
.axis path,
.axis line {
  fill: none;
  stroke: #000;
  shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
​
.x.axis path {
  display: none;
}
​
.line {
  fill: none;
  stroke: steelblue;
  stroke-width: 1.5px;
}
​
.reg {
  fill: none;
  stroke: orange;
  stroke-width: 1.5px;
}
​
</style>
<body>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.js"></script>
<script src="https://npmcdn.com/simple-statistics@2.0.0-beta3/dist/simple-statistics.min.js"></script>
<script>
​
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 50},
    width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
    height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
​
var parseDate = d3.time.format("%d-%b-%y").parse;
​
var x = d3.time.scale()
    .range([0, width]);
​
var y = d3.scale.linear()
    .range([height, 0]);
​
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
    .scale(x)
    .orient("bottom");
​
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
    .scale(y)
    .orient("left");
​
var line = d3.svg.line()
    .x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
    .y(function(d) { return y(d.close); });
​
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 + ")");
​
d3.tsv("data.tsv", function(error, data) {
  data.forEach(function(d) {
    d.date = parseDate(d.date);
    d.close = +d.close;
  });
​
  x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.date; }));
  y.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.close; }));
​
  // Derive a linear regression
  var regression = ss.linearRegression(data.map(function(d) {
    return [+d.date, d.close];
  }));
  
  var lin = ss.linearRegressionLine(regression);
​
  // Create a line based on the beginning and endpoints of the range
  var lindata = x.domain().map(function(x) {
    return {
      date: new Date(x),
      close: lin(+x)
    };
  });
​
  svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "x axis")
      .attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
      .call(xAxis);
​
  svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "y axis")
      .call(yAxis)
    .append("text")
      .attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
      .attr("y", 6)
      .attr("dy", ".71em")
      .style("text-anchor", "end")
      .text("Price ($)");
​
  svg.append("path")
      .datum(data)
      .attr("class", "line")
      .attr("d", line);
​
  svg.append("path")
      .datum(lindata)
      .attr("class", "reg")
      .attr("d", line);
});
​
</script>
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