Age Distribution of Legislators Versus US Population

Data from the Sunlight Labs Congress API - get an API key and play around with it!

Age population data from 2000 from the Minnesota Population Center. Visualized with d3js.

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  fill: none;
  stroke: #000;
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<body>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>

var format = d3.time.format("%Y-%m-%d");
var yformat = d3.time.format("%Y");

d3.csv('ages.csv', function(err, popgender) {
d3.json('legislators.json', function(err, data) {

var nowy = (new Date()).getFullYear();
    var ages = data.response.legislators.map(function(d) {
        return nowy - format.parse(d.legislator.birthdate).getFullYear();
    });

var data = d3.nest()
        .key(function(d) {
            return Math.floor(d / 5) * 5;
        })
        .entries(ages);

var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40},
        width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
        height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;

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

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

var ypop = d3.scale.linear()
        .range([height, 0])
        .domain([0, d3.max(pop, function(d) { return d.people })]);

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
        .scale(x)
        .orient("bottom");

var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
        .scale(y)
        .orient("left");

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 + ")");

svg.append('g')
        .attr('transform', 'translate(750, 10)')
        .append('text').attr('class', 'bar')
        .text('legislators');

svg.append('g')
        .attr('transform', 'translate(750, 40)')
        .append('text').attr('class', 'bar-pop')
        .text('us population');

x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.key; }));
    y.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.values.length }));

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("Frequency");

svg.selectAll(".bar")
        .data(data)
      .enter().append("rect")
        .attr("class", "bar")
        .attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.key - 5); })
        .attr("width", 20)
        .attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.values.length); })
        .attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.values.length); });

svg.selectAll(".bar-pop")
        .data(pop)
      .enter().append("rect")
        .attr("class", "bar-pop")
        .attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.key - 5) + 22; })
        .attr("width", 20)
        .attr("y", function(d) { return ypop(d.people); })
        .attr("height", function(d) { return height - ypop(d.people); });
});
});
</script>

Modified http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js to a secure url

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