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Vega Bl.ocks example
license: bsd-3-clause
{
"$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega/v4.0.json",
"width": 400,
"height": 200,
"padding": 5,
"data": [
{
"name": "table",
"values": [
{"category": "A", "amount": 28},
{"category": "B", "amount": 55},
{"category": "C", "amount": 43},
{"category": "D", "amount": 91},
{"category": "E", "amount": 81},
{"category": "F", "amount": 53},
{"category": "G", "amount": 19},
{"category": "H", "amount": 87}
]
}
],
"signals": [
{
"name": "tooltip",
"value": {},
"on": [
{"events": "rect:mouseover", "update": "datum"},
{"events": "rect:mouseout", "update": "{}"}
]
}
],
"scales": [
{
"name": "xscale",
"type": "band",
"domain": {"data": "table", "field": "category"},
"range": "width"
},
{
"name": "yscale",
"domain": {"data": "table", "field": "amount"},
"nice": true,
"range": "height"
}
],
"axes": [
{ "orient": "bottom", "scale": "xscale" },
{ "orient": "left", "scale": "yscale" }
],
"marks": [
{
"type": "rect",
"from": {"data":"table"},
"encode": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "xscale", "field": "category", "offset": 1},
"width": {"scale": "xscale", "band": 1, "offset": -1},
"y": {"scale": "yscale", "field": "amount"},
"y2": {"scale": "yscale", "value": 0}
},
"update": {
"fill": {"value": "steelblue"}
},
"hover": {
"fill": {"value": "red"}
}
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"encode": {
"enter": {
"align": {"value": "center"},
"baseline": {"value": "bottom"},
"fill": {"value": "#333"}
},
"update": {
"x": {"scale": "xscale", "signal": "tooltip.category", "band": 0.5},
"y": {"scale": "yscale", "signal": "tooltip.amount", "offset": -2},
"text": {"signal": "tooltip.amount"},
"fillOpacity": [
{"test": "datum === tooltip", "value": 0},
{"value": 1}
]
}
}
}
]
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega@5"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vega-embed@5"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="vis"></div>
<script>
const spec = "bar.vg.json";
vegaEmbed("#vis", spec)
// result.view provides access to the Vega View API
.then(result => console.log(result))
.catch(console.warn);
</script>
</body>
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ogecece commented Nov 5, 2017

Hi, @domoritz! Really liked your tutorial. It helped me get the grasp of a lot of concepts even being that simple.
When I was toying with the spec I noticed one issue:
In the "update" set of the text, there's this condition:

"fillOpacity": [
    {"test": "datum === tooltip", "value": 0},
    {"value": 1}
]

The issue is that datum === tooltip is never true. So after a bunch of searching I changed the condition to this...

"fillOpacity": [
    {"test": "isNumber(tooltip.amount)", "value": 1},
    {"value": 0}
]

And it worked!
I did not fully understand what input datum is referencing. I started to think it was the text mark itself, but I'm new to Vega. So... I don't know yet, but I would like to :)
Sorry if this is the wrong place to report this issue, I was not sure if it would be better to report it here or in the Vega repo.

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