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World Population Single Bar

Current world population visualized using a single rectangle. This is example 5 from the screencast Splitting Charts.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>D3 Example</title>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js"></script>
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<style>
.axis text {
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
font-size: 63pt;
}
.axis path, .axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
stroke-width: 5px;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script>
var outerWidth = 960;
var outerHeight = 500;
var margin = { left: 137, top: 4, right: 23, bottom: 100 };
var barPadding = 0.2;
var xColumn = "name";
var yColumn = "population";
var innerWidth = outerWidth - margin.left - margin.right;
var innerHeight = outerHeight - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", outerWidth)
.attr("height", outerHeight);
var g = svg.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
var xAxisG = g.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + innerHeight + ")");
var yAxisG = g.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis");
// Create a modified number formatter that uses "B" for Billion instead of "G".
var siFormat = d3.format("s");
var customTickFormat = function (d){
return siFormat(d).replace("G", "B");
};
var xScale = d3.scale.ordinal().rangeBands([0, innerWidth], barPadding);
var yScale = d3.scale.linear().range([innerHeight, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(xScale).orient("bottom")
.tickSize(20)
.outerTickSize(0); // Turn off the marks at the end of the axis.
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(yScale).orient("left")
.ticks(5) // Use approximately 5 ticks marks.
.tickSize(20)
.tickFormat(customTickFormat) // Use intelligent abbreviations, e.g. 5M for 5 Million, 5B for 5 billion.
.outerTickSize(0); // Turn off the marks at the end of the axis.
function render(data){
xScale.domain( data.map( function (d){ return d[xColumn]; }));
yScale.domain([0, d3.max(data, function (d){ return d[yColumn]; })]);
xAxisG.call(xAxis);
yAxisG.call(yAxis);
var bars = g.selectAll("rect").data(data);
bars.enter().append("rect")
.attr("width", xScale.rangeBand());
bars
.attr("x", function (d){ return xScale(d[xColumn]); })
.attr("y", function (d){ return yScale(d[yColumn]); })
.attr("height", function (d){ return innerHeight - yScale(d[yColumn]); });
bars.exit().remove();
}
function type(d){
d.population = +d.population;
return d;
}
d3.csv("worldPopulation2015.csv", type, render);
</script>
</body>
</html>
name population
World 7349472099
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