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Sorting grouped bars

This shows how to adjust Mike Bostock's example of grouped bars such that you can separately sort the bars within groups or the groups themselves.

To separately sort the bars within groups see the comments A1 - A3. To sort the groups themselves see comment B1.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.bar {
fill: steelblue;
}
.x.axis path {
display: none;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var x0 = d3.scale.ordinal()
.rangeRoundBands([0, width], .1);
var x1 = d3.scale.ordinal();
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.range([height, 0]);
var color = d3.scale.ordinal()
.range(["#98abc5", "#8a89a6", "#7b6888", "#6b486b", "#a05d56", "#d0743c", "#ff8c00"]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x0)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left")
.tickFormat(d3.format(".2s"));
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 + ")");
d3.csv("states.csv", function(error, data) {
var ageNames = d3.keys(data[0]).filter(function(key) { return key !== "State"; });
data.forEach(function(d) {
d.ages = ageNames.map(function(name) { return {name: name, value: +d[name]}; });
// A1: add next line
d.ages.sort(function(a, b) { return d3.ascending(a.value, b.value); });
});
// B1: substitute with next 3 lines x0.domain(data.map(function(d) { return d.State; }));
var myStates = data.map(function(d) { return d.State; });
myStates.sort(function(a, b) { return d3.ascending(a, b); });
x0.domain(myStates);
// A2: substitute with next line - x1.domain(ageNames).rangeRoundBands([0, x0.rangeBand()]);
x1.domain(d3.range(0, data[0].ages.length)).rangeRoundBands([0, x0.rangeBand()]);
y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d3.max(d.ages, function(d) { return d.value; }); })]);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.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("Population");
var state = svg.selectAll(".state")
.data(data)
.enter().append("g")
.attr("class", "g")
.attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + x0(d.State) + ",0)"; });
state.selectAll("rect")
.data(function(d) { return d.ages; })
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("width", x1.rangeBand())
// A3: substitute with next line - .attr("x", function(d) { return x1(d.name); })
.attr("x", function(d, i) { return x1(i); })
.attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.value); })
.attr("height", function(d) { return height - y(d.value); })
.style("fill", function(d) { return color(d.name); });
var legend = svg.selectAll(".legend")
.data(ageNames.slice().reverse())
.enter().append("g")
.attr("class", "legend")
.attr("transform", function(d, i) { return "translate(0," + i * 20 + ")"; });
legend.append("rect")
.attr("x", width - 18)
.attr("width", 18)
.attr("height", 18)
.style("fill", color);
legend.append("text")
.attr("x", width - 24)
.attr("y", 9)
.attr("dy", ".35em")
.style("text-anchor", "end")
.text(function(d) { return d; });
});
</script>
State Under 5 Years 5 to 13 Years 14 to 17 Years 18 to 24 Years 25 to 44 Years 45 to 64 Years 65 Years and Over
CA 2704659 4499890 2159981 3853788 10604510 8819342 4114496
TX 2027307 3277946 1420518 2454721 7017731 5656528 2472223
NY 1208495 2141490 1058031 1999120 5355235 5120254 2607672
FL 1140516 1938695 925060 1607297 4782119 4746856 3187797
IL 894368 1558919 725973 1311479 3596343 3239173 1575308
PA 737462 1345341 679201 1203944 3157759 3414001 1910571
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EE2dev commented Feb 24, 2015

This shows how to adjust Mike Bostock's Example of grouped bars such that you can separately sort the bars within groups or the groups themselves.

To separately sort the bars within groups see the comments A1 - A3.
To sort the groups themselves see comment B1.

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