On blur, bar heights represent nominal dollars, and bar areas represent real dollars. Mousemoves along the date axis normalizes width, forcing height to represent real dollars.
Bar chart based on mbostock/3885304. Box office data from boxofficemojo.com. CPI from inflationdata.com.
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<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
svg {
overflow: visible;
}
g {
pointer-events: all;
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.bar {
fill: steelblue;
}
.bar:hover {
fill: brown;
}
.axis {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.x.axis path {
display: none;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="d3.min.js"></script>
<script src="d3-jetpack.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/queue.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 85},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
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")
.ticks(10, "$,");
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("rect")
.attr('class', 'click-capture')
.style('visibility', 'hidden')
.attr('x', -margin.left)
.attr('y', -margin.top)
.attr('width', width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr('height', height + margin.top + margin.bottom);
var title = svg.append("text")
.attr("dx", "1em")
.attr("dy", "1em")
.text("Hollywood annual box office grosses, nominal USD");
queue()
.defer(d3.tsv, "boxoffice.tsv", dataType)
.defer(d3.tsv, "cpi.tsv", indexType)
.await(render);
function render(error, data, index) {
if (error) throw error;
data.sort(function(a,b) { return a.year - b.year; });
x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.year; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.totalgross; })]);
index = indexer(index);
var maxRatio = d3.max(index.domain().map(function(year) {
var extent = d3.extent(data, ƒ('year'));
return year >= extent[0] && year <= extent[1] ? 1 / index(year) : false;
}));
var inflation = d3.scale.linear()
.range([0, width / data.length])
.domain([0, maxRatio]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis);
svg.selectAll(".bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("class", "bar")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.year); })
.attr("width", function(d) { return inflation(1 / index(d.year)); })
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.totalgross); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.totalgross); });
svg
.on("mousemove", scrub)
.on("touchmove", scrub)
.on("mouseleave", reset)
.on("touchend", reset);
function scrub() {
var date = d3.touch(this)
? x.invert(d3.touch(this))[0]
: x.invert(d3.mouse(this)[0]);
svg.selectAll(".bar")
.transition()
.ease("linear")
.duration(100)
.attr("width", function(d) { return inflation(1 / index(date)); })
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.totalgross * (index(date) / index(d.year))); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.totalgross * (index(date) / index(d.year))); })
title.text("Hollywood annual box office grosses, real " + date.getFullYear() + " USD");
}
function reset() {
title.text("Hollywood annual box office grosses, nominal USD");
svg.selectAll(".bar")
.transition()
.attr("width", function(d) { return inflation(1 / index(d.year)); })
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.totalgross); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.totalgross); });
}
}
function dataType(d) {
d.year = new Date(d.year);
d.totalgross = +d.totalgross;
return d;
}
function indexType(d) {
d.date = new Date(d.year)
d.average = +d.average;
return d;
}
function indexer(index) {
return d3.scale.linear()
.domain(index.map(ƒ('date')))
.range(index.map(ƒ('average')));
}
</script>
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