simple line chart from dataset

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index.html#

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
  <style>
    .line {
      fill: none;
      stroke: black;
      stroke-width: 1.5px;
    }
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <script>

    var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
      .attr("width", 960)
      .attr("height", 500);

    var width = 800;
    var height = 400;

    // See formats http://bl.ocks.org/zanarmstrong/raw/05c1e95bf7aa16c4768e/
    // Data sample {"name": "G", "value": 10, "date": "2016-07"}
    var parseDate = d3.timeParse("%Y-%m");
    var displayDate = d3.timeFormat("%b %y");
    var displayValue = d3.format(",.0f");
    
    // Ordinal scale
    var x = d3.scaleTime()
        .range([0, width]);

		// Linear scale
    var y = d3.scaleLinear()
        .range([height, height - 200]);

    var line = d3.line()
        .x(function(d) { return x(d.date); })
        .y(function(d) { return y(d.value); });
    
    var g = svg.append("g")
    	.attr("transform", "translate(50, 0)")
    
   	d3.json("dataset.json", function(error, data) {
	  	if (error) throw error;

      // Pre-processing
      data.forEach(function(d) {
				d.value = +d.value;
        d["date"] = parseDate(d["date"]);
      });
      
      x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.date; }));
			y.domain([0, d3.max(data, function(d) { return d.value; })]);
      
      svg.selectAll(".label").data(data).enter()
       .append("text")
      	.attr("class", "label")
        .text(function(d, i) { return displayDate(d.date); })
        .attr("y", 420)
        .attr("x", function(d) { return x(d.date); })
        .style("font-size", 10)
        .style("font-family", "monospace");

      // Display last value
      g.selectAll(".value").data([data[data.length -1]]).enter()
       .append("text")
        .text(function(d, i) { return displayValue(d.value); })
        .attr("class", "value")
        .attr("y", function(d) { return y(d.value); })
        .attr("x", width + 10)
        .style("font-size", 20)
        .style("font-family", "monospace");

      g.selectAll(".line").data([data]).enter().append("path")
        .attr("class", "line")
        .attr("d", line);

    });

  </script>
</body>

dataset.json#

[{"name": "A", "value": 10, "date": "2016-01"},
 {"name": "B", "value": 30, "date": "2016-02"},
 {"name": "C", "value": 20, "date": "2016-03"},
 {"name": "D", "value": 40, "date": "2016-04"},
 {"name": "E", "value": 50, "date": "2016-05"},
 {"name": "F", "value": 20, "date": "2016-06"},
 {"name": "G", "value": 10, "date": "2016-07"}
]

LICENSE#

Released under The MIT License.