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quick example of vega lifelines spec in a clickme ractive
<!--see original at https://github.com/trifacta/vega-->
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link href="http://trifacta.github.com/vega/css/vega.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://trifacta.github.com/vega/vega.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="vis"></div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function parse(spec) {
vg.parse.spec(spec, function(chart) {
var view = chart({ el:"#vis" });
view.viewport(null)
.renderer("svg")
.update();
});
}
parse({
"name": "lifelines",
"width": 400,
"height": 100,
"padding": {"top":10,"left":30,"bottom":30,"right":10},
"data": [{"name":"people","values":[{"label":"Washington","born":-7506057600000,"died":-5365324800000,"enter":-5701424400000,"leave":-5453884800000},{"label":"Adams","born":-7389766800000,"died":-4528285200000,"enter":-5453884800000,"leave":-5327740800000},{"label":"Jefferson","born":-7154586000000,"died":-4528285200000,"enter":-5327740800000,"leave":-5075280000000},{"label":"Madison","born":-6904544400000,"died":-4213184400000,"enter":-5075280000000,"leave":-4822819200000},{"label":"Monroe","born":-6679904400000,"died":-4370518800000,"enter":-4822819200000,"leave":-4570358400000}]},{"name":"events","format":{"type":"json","parse":{"when":"date"}},"values":[{"name":"Decl. of Independence","when":"July 4, 1776"},{"name":"U.S. Constitution","when":"3/4/1789"},{"name":"Louisiana Purchase","when":"April 30, 1803"},{"name":"Monroe Doctrine","when":"Dec 2, 1823"}]}],
"scales": [
{
"name": "y",
"type": "ordinal",
"range": "height",
"domain": {"data": "people", "field": "data.label"}
},
{
"name": "x",
"type": "time",
"range": "width",
"round": true,
"nice": "year",
"domain": {"data": "people", "field": ["data.born", "data.died"]}
}
],
"axes": [
{"type": "x", "scale": "x"}
],
"marks": [
{
"type": "text",
"from": {"data": "events"},
"properties": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "x", "field": "data.when"},
"y": {"value": -10},
"angle": {"value": -25},
"fill": {"value": "#000"},
"text": {"field": "data.name"},
"font": {"value": "Helvetica Neue"},
"fontSize": {"value": 10}
}
}
},
{
"type": "rect",
"from": {"data": "events"},
"properties": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "x", "field": "data.when"},
"y": {"value": -8},
"width": {"value": 1},
"height": {"value": 108},
"fill": {"value": "#888"}
}
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"from": {"data": "people"},
"properties": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "x", "field": "data.born"},
"y": {"scale": "y", "field": "data.label", "offset": -3},
"fill": {"value": "#000"},
"text": {"field": "data.label"},
"font": {"value": "Helvetica Neue"},
"fontSize": {"value": 10}
}
}
},
{
"type": "rect",
"from": {"data": "people"},
"properties": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "x", "field": "data.born"},
"x2": {"scale": "x", "field": "data.died"},
"y": {"scale": "y", "field": "data.label"},
"height": {"value": 2},
"fill": {"value": "#557"}
}
}
},
{
"type": "rect",
"from": {"data": "people"},
"properties": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "x", "field": "data.enter"},
"x2": {"scale": "x", "field": "data.leave"},
"y": {"scale": "y", "field": "data.label", "offset":-1},
"height": {"value": 4},
"fill": {"value": "#e44"}
}
}
}
]
});
</script>
</html>
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