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Normalizing Lines by Start Date

What This Shows

This shows the female-percentage of people named androgynous names over time.

What's Under the Hood

This normalizes each of the paths by start date by resetting the domain of the x-axis to fit each data row. Start date is defined as being the first time when the name had a female percentage greater than zero.

What Remains

It would be much better to show the date on hover rather than simply the name. This would require a bit more precomputation because of the non-linear interpolation (can't simply use scales).

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
width: 960px;
margin: auto;
position: relative;
}
svg {
font: 11px "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.axis--y path {
display: none;
}
.androgs {
fill: none;
stroke: #aaa;
stroke-linejoin: round;
stroke-linecap: round;
stroke-width: 1.5px;
}
.androg--hover {
stroke: #000;
}
.focus text {
text-anchor: middle;
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff, 1px 0 0 #fff, 0 -1px 0 #fff, -1px 0 0 #fff;
}
#form {
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
right: 30px;
}
rect {
fill: none;
pointer-events: all;
}
</style>
<label id="form">
Display
<select id="form_select">
</select>
Lines
</label>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.js"></script>
<script>
var years,
yearFormat = d3.time.format("%Y");
var margin = {top: 20, right: 30, bottom: 30, left: 40},
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 color = d3.scale.category20();
var line = d3.svg.line()
.interpolate("basis")
.x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
.y(function(d) { return y(d.value); });
var focus;
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("width", width)
.attr("height", height)
.on("mousemove", mousemoved);
var paths = [],
shown_paths = [];
d3.csv("steady_andro.csv", type, function(error, androgs) {
x.domain(d3.extent(years));
y.domain([0, d3.max(androgs, function(c) { return d3.max(c.values, function(d) { return d.value; }); })]).nice();
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "axis axis--x")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.tickValues([])
.orient("bottom"))
.append("text")
.attr("dx", "11px")
.attr("dy", "11px")
.style("font-weight", "bold")
.text("Year First Appeared");
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "axis axis--y")
.call(d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left")
.ticks(10, "%"))
.append("text")
.attr("x", -75)
.attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
.attr("dy", "10px")
.style("font-weight", "bold")
.text("Percent Female");
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "androgs")
.selectAll("path")
.data(androgs)
.enter().append("path")
.attr("d", function(d) { d.line = this; return removedStartingZeroes(d); })
focus = svg.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(-100,-100)")
.attr("class", "focus");
focus.append("circle")
.attr("r", 3.5);
focus.append("text")
.attr("y", -10);
var form_select = d3.select("#form_select");
form_select.selectAll("option")
.data(androgs)
.enter().append("option")
.attr("value", function(d, i) { return i+1; })
.text(function(d, i) { return i+1; })
// set the last option as selected
var all_options = d3.selectAll("option")[0];
d3.select(all_options[all_options.length - 1])
.attr("selected", "selected");
form_select.on("change", change);
paths = androgs;
shown_paths = paths;
});
function change() {
var n_lines = d3.select("#form_select").property("value");
shown_paths = paths.slice(0, n_lines);
var parent_g = svg.select(".androgs");
var rendered_paths = parent_g.selectAll("path")
.data(shown_paths);
rendered_paths.exit().remove();
rendered_paths.enter().append("path")
.attr("d", function(d) { d.line = this; return removedStartingZeroes(d); });
}
function mousemoved() {
d3.select(".androg--hover").classed("androg--hover", false);
var m = d3.mouse(this),
min_path_index = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < shown_paths.length; i++) {
shown_paths[i].distance = closestPoint(shown_paths[i].line, m);
if (shown_paths[i].distance.distance < shown_paths[min_path_index].distance.distance) {
min_path_index = i;
}
};
var min_path = shown_paths[min_path_index];
d3.select(min_path.line).classed("androg--hover", true);
//min_path.line.parentNode.appendChild(min_path.line);
focus.attr("transform", "translate(" + min_path.distance[0] + "," + min_path.distance[1] + ")");
focus.select("text").text(min_path.name);
}
function removedStartingZeroes(d) {
var zero_counter = 0;
var j = 0;
while (j < d.values.length) {
if (d.values[j].value != 0.0) {
break;
}
j++;
zero_counter++;
}
min_datestr = 'Jan 1 ' + (1880 + zero_counter).toString();
max_datestr = 'Jan 1 ' + "2013";
x.domain([new Date(min_datestr), new Date(max_datestr)]);
var normalized_path = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'path');
normalized_path.setAttribute('d', line(d.values.slice(zero_counter, d.values.length)));
return line(d.values.slice(zero_counter, d.values.length));
}
function closestPoint(pathNode, point) {
var pathLength = pathNode.getTotalLength(),
precision = pathLength / pathNode.pathSegList.numberOfItems * .5,
best,
bestLength,
bestDistance = Infinity;
// linear scan for coarse approximation
for (var scan, scanLength = 0, scanDistance; scanLength <= pathLength; scanLength += precision) {
if ((scanDistance = distance2(scan = pathNode.getPointAtLength(scanLength))) < bestDistance) {
best = scan, bestLength = scanLength, bestDistance = scanDistance;
}
}
// binary search for precise estimate
precision *= .5;
while (precision > .5) {
var before,
after,
beforeLength,
afterLength,
beforeDistance,
afterDistance;
if ((beforeLength = bestLength - precision) >= 0 && (beforeDistance = distance2(before = pathNode.getPointAtLength(beforeLength))) < bestDistance) {
best = before, bestLength = beforeLength, bestDistance = beforeDistance;
} else if ((afterLength = bestLength + precision) <= pathLength && (afterDistance = distance2(after = pathNode.getPointAtLength(afterLength))) < bestDistance) {
best = after, bestLength = afterLength, bestDistance = afterDistance;
} else {
precision *= .5;
}
}
best = [best.x, best.y];
best.distance = Math.sqrt(bestDistance);
return best;
function distance2(p) {
var dx = p.x - point[0],
dy = p.y - point[1];
return dx * dx + dy * dy;
}
}
function type(d, i) {
if (!i) years = Object.keys(d).map(yearFormat.parse).filter(Number);
var androg = {
name: d.name.replace(/ (msa|necta div|met necta|met div)$/i, ""),
values: null
};
androg.values = years.map(function(m) {
return {
androg: androg,
date: m,
value: d[yearFormat(m)]
};
});
return androg;
}
</script>
name 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Casey 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.11363636363636363 0.10638297872340426 0.12195121951219512 0.1 0.16129032258064516 0.125 0.14705882352941177 0.1724137931034483 0.15625 0.20833333333333334 0.16666666666666666 0.1388888888888889 0.125 0.18518518518518517 0.16666666666666666 0.125 0.13513513513513514 0.19230769230769232 0.13513513513513514 0.1724137931034483 0.14285714285714285 0.08333333333333333 0.1276595744680851 0.12962962962962962 0.14583333333333334 0.1111111111111111 0.08860759493670886 0.09278350515463918 0.15328467153284672 0.12030075187969924 0.10465116279069768 0.1346153846153846 0.14761904761904762 0.1259259259259259 0.10542168674698796 0.1497584541062802 0.13615023474178403 0.1444954128440367 0.17842323651452283 0.1792452830188679 0.1431980906921241 0.1325503355704698 0.15046296296296297 0.1447084233261339 0.1301775147928994 0.1471927162367223 0.1847649918962723 0.20803443328550933 0.21878579610538373 0.21384750219106047 0.2195290858725762 0.3139065204847086 0.3264876250658241 0.3222265778126225 0.30408525754884547 0.27594419870704323 0.2678319706794474 0.3378110548337371 0.3879857256145916 0.40274429816428703 0.40781934614088305 0.4194477384380823 0.4416033172080166 0.4237204724409449 0.4148793565683646 0.47640261729082556 0.4769579115610016 0.43825699568425447 0.44423604097532826 0.441212285211744 0.42769573697408747 0.45699088145896655 0.44774305555555555 0.46906048457381905 0.5008543763052972 0.5086774386594853 0.5113027266371475 0.5158204562178073 0.4686605981794538 0.45432764300688827 0.4519196900317013 0.42445450802799506 0.4408217954443948 0.3916586768935762 0.4112299465240642 0.41847826086956524 0.414039262343843 0.40933899332929047 0.4073013600572656 0.40706476030277544 0.42014519056261346 0.38919514884233736 0.40280777537796975
Marion 0.3782894736842105 0.40441176470588236 0.47315436241610737 0.5302593659942363 0.4958904109589041 0.584070796460177 0.6 0.6597402597402597 0.6652892561983471 0.6838842975206612 0.7380497131931166 0.7734082397003745 0.7496229260935143 0.7928464977645305 0.7921727395411606 0.852589641434263 0.8515962036238136 0.8666085440278989 0.8674121405750799 0.8648888888888889 0.8636363636363636 0.8582887700534759 0.8544251447477254 0.8471544715447155 0.8485080336648814 0.8703279938977879 0.8673020527859238 0.8469871360866622 0.8527180783817951 0.8540189125295509 0.8562091503267973 0.8344497607655502 0.7875663855045298 0.7873103448275862 0.7833186231244483 0.7748217701269344 0.7876036938488026 0.7913351016799293 0.7843495363866254 0.7762227238525207 0.7818750850455845 0.7719787516600266 0.7767429119298727 0.7738482384823848 0.7889860368002088 0.7755215577190543 0.7669054441260745 0.7658386006173747 0.7814302191464821 0.7619674288534298 0.7560161601967328 0.7413385826771653 0.7269887546855477 0.7284315957204643 0.7184538653366583 0.7041301627033792 0.7112947658402203 0.674357476635514 0.6534954407294833 0.6668816510802967 0.6683544303797468 0.6596945551128818 0.6713483146067416 0.6660395108184384 0.6531204644412192 0.6562884063908234 0.6492398961809418 0.6582323592302209 0.6298932384341637 0.6448598130841121 0.6276018099547511 0.6119471044231646 0.616398243045388 0.6242069302098585 0.6167360147942672 0.6161290322580645 0.5971846237141311 0.6334134615384616 0.6440781440781441 0.6285909712722298 0.6001478196600147 0.5713196033562167 0.612212529738303 0.6160267111853088 0.6147332768839966 0.5685685685685685 0.6047565118912798 0.573729863692689 0.5429638854296388 0.5477453580901857 0.5574963609898108 0.5106685633001422 0.49409780775716694 0.4734042553191489 0.46693386773547096 0.4874476987447699 0.44212962962962965 0.5 0.4717948717948718 0.44471153846153844 0.4796954314720812 0.5301507537688442 0.5355329949238579 0.5612903225806452 0.4940119760479042 0.5202492211838006 0.49846153846153846 0.5226480836236934 0.5102040816326531 0.5049833887043189 0.5496688741721855 0.5231788079470199 0.5723684210526315 0.5370370370370371 0.5885167464114832 0.5454545454545454 0.4956896551724138 0.49224806201550386 0.484375 0.4880382775119617 0.5802469135802469 0.5309734513274337 0.52 0.4296028880866426 0.4497991967871486 0.3828996282527881 0.38492063492063494 0.4362934362934363 0.4067796610169492 0.48034934497816595 0.44144144144144143 0.5211267605633803 0.5023041474654378 0.5897435897435898
Jessie 0.8048162230671736 0.822139303482587 0.8076152304609219 0.8465447154471545 0.8338028169014085 0.8249566724436742 0.8471283783783784 0.847571189279732 0.8253094910591472 0.8524590163934426 0.8383635144198525 0.8313521545319466 0.8323313293253173 0.8503496503496504 0.8145454545454546 0.8414239482200647 0.8280780780780781 0.8357894736842105 0.8232958305757776 0.8056589724497394 0.7817482133040132 0.8285077951002228 0.7933461292386437 0.8110661268556005 0.7927152317880795 0.7955232909860859 0.7942675159235669 0.7729411764705882 0.7956246401842256 0.753565316600114 0.7491492464754497 0.7560975609756098 0.7478134110787172 0.7655428394679864 0.7509186351706036 0.7302001740644039 0.7290198590647021 0.7181347150259068 0.7177693383969618 0.7054589082183563 0.676829268292683 0.6801602361374658 0.6665968147527243 0.66875 0.6830909485565444 0.6677981443765558 0.6637872243691748 0.6614957166010651 0.6308253059099193 0.6294642857142857 0.623439273552781 0.6039448966812774 0.5967285309845863 0.6257796257796258 0.621875 0.5948529411764706 0.6104695919938414 0.598145285935085 0.6035962402942379 0.5686354378818738 0.5671768707482994 0.5665970772442589 0.5809682804674458 0.5446243254462433 0.5407572383073497 0.5402635431918009 0.535371976266545 0.5245009074410163 0.4942316566682049 0.5017031630170317 0.4800204918032787 0.4870600414078675 0.4592050209205021 0.45741968383477816 0.4343376918703809 0.4361078546307151 0.3936599423631124 0.37242192103712435 0.36822429906542054 0.37848347375243035 0.35294117647058826 0.3307475317348378 0.3224873463485177 0.3075153374233129 0.31136363636363634 0.3508902077151335 0.34517766497461927 0.3188034188034188 0.30821256038647343 0.29545454545454547 0.31514581373471307 0.3205357142857143 0.2957089552238806 0.318552036199095 0.32339656729900634 0.33676975945017185 0.352755905511811 0.34225352112676055 0.4183474300585556 0.41274397244546496 0.4256544502617801 0.49167005282405524 0.4624090541632983 0.4333821376281113 0.47509578544061304 0.49531459170013387 0.5334168755221387 0.51237935375577 0.5173951828724354 0.503288031565103 0.47068747363981445 0.48712352684417287 0.5114325711619225 0.5059360730593607 0.5605180884323359 0.5575698187163155 0.5283324338909876 0.5291170945522855 0.5367965367965368 0.5598484848484848 0.5742811501597445 0.5070656691604323 0.5086661642803316 0.4959807073954984 0.5157179269328802 0.4621695533272562 0.49207828518173347 0.4819863680623174 0.503061224489796 0.47776510832383123 0.508495145631068 0.550744248985115 0.5688775510204082 0.5984943538268507
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