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@mbostock /.block
Last active Feb 8, 2016

Grouped Bar Chart
license: gpl-3.0
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.axis text {
font: 10px sans-serif;
}
.axis path,
.axis line {
fill: none;
stroke: #000;
shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}
.x.axis path {
display: none;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var n = 20, // number of samples
m = 4; // number of series
var data = d3.range(m).map(function() { return d3.range(n).map(Math.random); });
var margin = {top: 20, right: 30, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, 1])
.range([height, 0]);
var x0 = d3.scale.ordinal()
.domain(d3.range(n))
.rangeBands([0, width], .2);
var x1 = d3.scale.ordinal()
.domain(d3.range(m))
.rangeBands([0, x0.rangeBand()]);
var z = d3.scale.category10();
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x0)
.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left");
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("svg:g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
svg.append("g").selectAll("g")
.data(data)
.enter().append("g")
.style("fill", function(d, i) { return z(i); })
.attr("transform", function(d, i) { return "translate(" + x1(i) + ",0)"; })
.selectAll("rect")
.data(function(d) { return d; })
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("width", x1.rangeBand())
.attr("height", y)
.attr("x", function(d, i) { return x0(i); })
.attr("y", function(d) { return height - y(d); });
</script>
@djjr
djjr commented May 10, 2013

Is there a logic that eludes me on why "y" is used for horizontal and "x" for vertical in this snippet?

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