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Bar Chart

This example is a slight modification from Mike Bostock's bar chart example. d3Kit was used to construct the <svg> and setup all the margins.

This simple bar chart is constructed from a TSV file storing the frequency of letters in the English language. The chart employs conventional margins and a number of D3 features:

letter frequency
A .08167
B .01492
C .02782
D .04253
E .12702
F .02288
G .02015
H .06094
I .06966
J .00153
K .00772
L .04025
M .02406
N .06749
O .07507
P .01929
Q .00095
R .05987
S .06327
T .09056
U .02758
V .00978
W .02360
X .00150
Y .01974
Z .00074
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.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="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/twitter/d3kit/v2.0.0/dist/d3kit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
var skeleton = new d3Kit.Skeleton('body', {
margin: {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40},
initialWidth: 960,
initialHeight: 500
});
var x = d3.scaleBand()
.paddingInner(0.1)
.rangeRound([0, skeleton.getInnerWidth()]);
var y = d3.scaleLinear()
.range([skeleton.getInnerHeight(), 0]);
var xAxis = d3.axisBottom()
.scale(x);
var yAxis = d3.axisLeft()
.scale(y)
.ticks(10, "%");
d3.tsv("data.tsv", type, function(error, data) {
x.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.letter; }));
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.frequency; })]);
skeleton.getRootG().append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + skeleton.getInnerHeight() + ")")
.call(xAxis);
skeleton.getRootG().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");
skeleton.getRootG().selectAll(".bar")
.data(data)
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("class", "bar")
.attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.letter); })
.attr("width", x.bandwidth())
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.frequency); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return skeleton.getInnerHeight() - y(d.frequency); });
});
function type(d) {
d.frequency = +d.frequency;
return d;
}
</script>
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