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Circle Area Chart

This visualization uses area to encode population for the largest 5 countries of the world. This is example 21 from the screencast Splitting Charts.

MIT License

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<!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: 22pt;
}
.axis .label {
font-size: 20pt;
}
.axis path, .axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script>
var outerWidth = 960;
var outerHeight = 500;
var margin = { left: 100, top: 115, right: 100, bottom: 205 };
var barPadding = 0.2;
var xColumn = "country";
var radiusColumn = "population";
var radiusMax = 85;
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 xScale = d3.scale.ordinal().rangePoints([0, innerWidth], barPadding);
var radiusScale = d3.scale.sqrt().range([0, radiusMax]);
// Use a modified SI formatter that uses "B" for Billion.
var siFormat = d3.format("s");
var customTickFormat = function (d){
return siFormat(d).replace("G", "B");
};
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis().scale(xScale).orient("bottom")
.outerTickSize(0);
function render(data){
xScale.domain( data.map( function (d){ return d[xColumn]; }));
radiusScale.domain([0, d3.max(data, function (d){ return d[radiusColumn]; })]);
xAxisG.call(xAxis);
var circles = g.selectAll("circle").data(data);
circles.enter().append("circle")
.attr("width", xScale.rangeBand());
circles
.attr("cx", function (d){ return xScale(d[xColumn]); })
.attr("cy", innerHeight / 2)
.attr("r", function (d){ return radiusScale(d[radiusColumn]); });
circles.exit().remove();
}
function type(d){
d.population = +d.population;
return d;
}
d3.csv("populationByCountry2015.csv", type, render);
</script>
</body>
</html>
country population
China 1376048943
India 1311050527
USA 321773631
Indonesia 257563815
Brazil 207847528
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