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D3 with random color generator
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.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="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
// Adapted from http://martin.ankerl.com/2009/12/09/how-to-create-random-colors-programmatically/
var randomColor = (function(){
var golden_ratio_conjugate = 0.618033988749895;
var h = Math.random();
var hslToRgb = function (h, s, l){
var r, g, b;
if(s == 0){
r = g = b = l; // achromatic
}else{
function hue2rgb(p, q, t){
if(t < 0) t += 1;
if(t > 1) t -= 1;
if(t < 1/6) return p + (q - p) * 6 * t;
if(t < 1/2) return q;
if(t < 2/3) return p + (q - p) * (2/3 - t) * 6;
return p;
}
var q = l < 0.5 ? l * (1 + s) : l + s - l * s;
var p = 2 * l - q;
r = hue2rgb(p, q, h + 1/3);
g = hue2rgb(p, q, h);
b = hue2rgb(p, q, h - 1/3);
}
return '#'+Math.round(r * 255).toString(16)+Math.round(g * 255).toString(16)+Math.round(b * 255).toString(16);
};
return function(){
h += golden_ratio_conjugate;
h %= 1;
return hslToRgb(h, 0.5, 0.60);
};
})();
</script>
<script>
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.ordinal()
.rangeRoundBands([0, width], .1);
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 + ")");
data = [
{letter: "A", frequency: 0.08167},
{letter: "B", frequency: 0.01492},
{letter: "C", frequency: 0.02782},
{letter: "D", frequency: 0.04253},
{letter: "E", frequency: 0.12702},
{letter: "F", frequency: 0.02288},
{letter: "G", frequency: 0.02015},
{letter: "H", frequency: 0.06094},
{letter: "I", frequency: 0.06966},
{letter: "J", frequency: 0.00153},
{letter: "K", frequency: 0.00772},
{letter: "L", frequency: 0.04025},
{letter: "M", frequency: 0.02406},
{letter: "N", frequency: 0.06749},
{letter: "O", frequency: 0.07507},
{letter: "P", frequency: 0.01929},
{letter: "Q", frequency: 0.00095},
{letter: "R", frequency: 0.05987},
{letter: "S", frequency: 0.06327},
{letter: "T", frequency: 0.09056},
{letter: "U", frequency: 0.02758},
{letter: "V", frequency: 0.00978},
{letter: "W", frequency: 0.02360},
{letter: "X", frequency: 0.00150},
{letter: "Y", frequency: 0.01974},
{letter: "Z", frequency: 0.00074}
];
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.letter; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.frequency; })]);
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.letter); })
.attr("width", x.rangeBand())
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.frequency); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.frequency); })
.style({fill: randomColor});
function type(d) {
d.frequency = +d.frequency;
return d;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
@kevinmrpvision
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Hi is there any way to generate 50 unique colour from your code?

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