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Histogram chart using d3.
license: gpl-3.0
height: 620
border: no

This is a fork of mbostock's Histogram. What I mainly add to the original are:

  • Using Normal distribution
  • Make it work with data ranged not only from 0 to 1
  • Coloring bars based on their count
  • Add some transitions
  • Add refresh() method to update Hitogram's data and call it repeatedly

This example can be view on bl.ocks.org.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.bar rect {
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.bar text {
fill: #999999;
}
.axis path, .axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var color = "steelblue";
// Generate a 1000 data points using normal distribution with mean=20, deviation=5
var values = d3.range(1000).map(d3.random.normal(20, 5));
// A formatter for counts.
var formatCount = d3.format(",.0f");
var margin = {top: 20, right: 30, bottom: 30, left: 30},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var max = d3.max(values);
var min = d3.min(values);
var x = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([min, max])
.range([0, width]);
// Generate a histogram using twenty uniformly-spaced bins.
var data = d3.layout.histogram()
.bins(x.ticks(20))
(values);
var yMax = d3.max(data, function(d){return d.length});
var yMin = d3.min(data, function(d){return d.length});
var colorScale = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([yMin, yMax])
.range([d3.rgb(color).brighter(), d3.rgb(color).darker()]);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, yMax])
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("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 bar = svg.selectAll(".bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("g")
.attr("class", "bar")
.attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + x(d.x) + "," + y(d.y) + ")"; });
bar.append("rect")
.attr("x", 1)
.attr("width", (x(data[0].dx) - x(0)) - 1)
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.y); })
.attr("fill", function(d) { return colorScale(d.y) });
bar.append("text")
.attr("dy", ".75em")
.attr("y", -12)
.attr("x", (x(data[0].dx) - x(0)) / 2)
.attr("text-anchor", "middle")
.text(function(d) { return formatCount(d.y); });
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
/*
* Adding refresh method to reload new data
*/
function refresh(values){
// var values = d3.range(1000).map(d3.random.normal(20, 5));
var data = d3.layout.histogram()
.bins(x.ticks(20))
(values);
// Reset y domain using new data
var yMax = d3.max(data, function(d){return d.length});
var yMin = d3.min(data, function(d){return d.length});
y.domain([0, yMax]);
var colorScale = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([yMin, yMax])
.range([d3.rgb(color).brighter(), d3.rgb(color).darker()]);
var bar = svg.selectAll(".bar").data(data);
// Remove object with data
bar.exit().remove();
bar.transition()
.duration(1000)
.attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + x(d.x) + "," + y(d.y) + ")"; });
bar.select("rect")
.transition()
.duration(1000)
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.y); })
.attr("fill", function(d) { return colorScale(d.y) });
bar.select("text")
.transition()
.duration(1000)
.text(function(d) { return formatCount(d.y); });
}
// Calling refresh repeatedly.
setInterval(function() {
var values = d3.range(1000).map(d3.random.normal(20, 5));
refresh(values);
}, 2000);
</script>
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