Is it possible to align the data points and outliers of box plot in one straight line like in center of box plot?
Additionally, can I color the data points?
The current and the desired screen shot are attached with it.
You can use
.dataWidthPortion(0)
to not spread the points out at all. Documentation.
General advice on changing the color or style of anything, if there is no accessor for it:
Look for the chart in the chart selectors wiki, or if it's not there, inspect the item you want to change in the developer tools and find out what SVG tag and CSS class the item has. In this case, it's circle.data
Add a pretransition handler which selects the items you want, and changes them:
var cc = d3.scaleOrdinal().range(d3.schemeDark2);
bp02.on('pretransition', chart => {
chart.selectAll('circle.data').attr('fill', function(d) {
const boxDatum = d3.select(this.parentNode).datum();
return cc(boxDatum.value[d]);
})
});
In this case, we're creating an ordinal scale to map the available data to the colors in a color scheme.
The interesting question is here is what data to bind to the color of the dots, and how to get that data.
A box plot's data consists of an array of key/value pairs where each value is a Y value. When the box plot draws it will bind each circle.dot element to the index of the data in the array.
So we need to get the array that is bound to the box. Luckily d3.select(this.parentNode).datum() will give us the key/value pair for the box.
For this example, we are encoding the color based on the Y value, which we get by looking inside boxDatum.value. You don't specify how you want the dots colored but this shows the data that is available.
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I have a chart I've created in excel that I'd like to replicate in d3, but I'm not sure where I should begin.
It's intended to show which character is speaking at which moment during a play, and so it visually looks similar to a gantt chart or stacked bar chart but it isn't working off of time the way a gantt chart would. Am I right in thinking that it'd be a bar chart or series of bar charts? Could I build it up by a series of 1 pixel wide bars, so that each pixel would equal a line in the play?
I'd provide code but I tried to modify the standard stacked bar chart and all I've really been able to do is either make the whole thing blank or modify the canvas dimensions. So I'd appreciate some suggestions to get me started.
it seems to me that the only (and big!) trouble you'll have here is creating the JSON. Once you have the JSON, it will be a piece of cake! Here is what I thought:
Create a very big JSON that is just 1 big array of hundreds of objects. Each object would be like this:
{"character": "John Doe", "place": "tavern", "duration": 5}
Then, you'll append the narrow rectangles using an ordinal scale for the places ("place") on y axis, setting the x position according to the cumulative duration of previous speeches and setting the width using the duration of each speech, and using CSS you can color the bars according to the character (using character for setting the class).
For this, you would use D3 only for the scales, avoiding the typical selection().data().enter().append() pattern and appending each rectangle in a for loop. Let me explain. Suppose you put your JSON in a variable named data. Then, you do:
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++){
var speech = data[i]
//rest of the code
}
This allow you, for each loop, to know the y position of the bar using speech.place, the name of the character using speech.character, for the colors, and the duration of the line using speech.duration. For calculating the x position, you declare a var duration; outside the loop and, inside it, you write:
duration += speech.duration;
In this approach, once you would use the cumulative duration for x position, the objects in the array must to be in the exact chronological order of the play.
PS: D3 is so nice that you can create an additional value named "line", for each object, with the actual line spoken by the character, and when the user hover over the rectangle he/she will see the text of the speech!
I'm using Segment Plot to show multiple lines on the chart. How can I make these lines have arrows on their ends?
You can do this with some SVG + DOM hacking. You can define a "marker element" that can be placed at the beginning, middle or end of a line (see http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/marker-element.html for details on markers).
This means manipulating the SVG generated by Plottable. To get the underlying DOM elements, you need to get hold of the d3 "selection" representing each line.
Add a marker definition to the <svg> element where you are rendering the plot. I am pretty sure plottable won't overwrite entities already inside, but if it does you can always add it after rendering the plot.
Use Segment#entities to get all "PlotEntity" objects from the plot (http://plottablejs.org/docs/classes/plottable.plots.segment.html#entities).
Use the PlotEntity#selection property (http://plottablejs.org/docs/interfaces/plottable.plots.plotentity.html#selection) to get the set of DOM elements representing each segment.
The "Selection" interface is just a d3 selection (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Selections). You can then add the appropriate "marker-end" attribute to each element, which should give you the arrow heads you want.
On the off-chance these lines are vertical, I have a super easy hack. Use .symbol() to create a scatter plot where the points are either up or down arrows, and place them at the ends of the segments.
Otherwise, you may have to draw the arrows yourself. You can get the pixel locations of the ends of the segments like this:
locX = xScale.invert(endpointXValue)
locY = yScale.invert(endpointYValue)
And then you could append an arrow shape to the foreground (see the crosshair container in this example)
I am creating a line chart with grid lines. Here's the similar example: http://bl.ocks.org/hunzy/11110940
I need to change the background of vertical space between X(2) to X(4), X(8) to X(10) and X(12) to X(14) on mouse hover. But I am not able to understand how to use D3 to reference those spaces between the grid lines.
There is nothing there to click on/hover over. The normal axis/grid creates lines, not rectangles. You would need to change the default behave of the axis objects to create "invisible, but clickable" rectangles in order to be able to attach a mouse event to those spaces.
I don't know if this is the recommended approach but it seems like it could work. After the axis has been created:
something
.attr('class','xaxis')
.call(xAxis)
You could select the ticks with something like this:
d3.select(svg).select('.xaxis g.tick').each(function(){
// this.transform will be "translate(X,Y)"
})
In the function you can query the existing properties of the g elements and extract the transform attribute which will contain the X and Y offset for the "tick". This can be used to determine one dimension of your rectangle objects. The other dimension is determined by the size of the other axis or something like that.
When using AmCharts let's say Pie chart, there are out of the box colors applied to the items which is not spread correctly and colors of the same family are sequentially applied which makes the charts with large number of items look pretty odd.
The sequence is always "red" first, then dark orange, light orange, yellow, 2 greens, 3 blues, etc.
I'd like to change this pattern a bit, is there a global setting for configuring this in AmCharts 3?
To achieve this use property “colors” of AmCoordinateChart object, as described here: http://docs.amcharts.com/3/javascriptcharts/AmCoordinateChart#colors
AmCoordinateChart is the parent object of AmChart What this means in practice is that when you define your chart (by .makeChart or other means), you add a “color” property with your array of colors to the AmChart object.
If the chart requires more colors than specified in the array, then AmCharts generates extra colors automatically. So you can both change the pattern, as you request, and extend it if needed.
So, in nvd3 charts, clicking on a legend entry basically filters that out of the chart window (for instance in the case of area charts). I want to invert this functionality..i.e. show the particular chart when its corresponding legend is shown and hide all the others...is there a way to do it?
It is similar to what happens when user hits the chart itself (i.e. only the one that is clicked is expanded and rest of the streams hide).
I am referring to this example: http://nvd3.org/ghpages/stackedArea.html
There's a radioButtonMode that should do exactly what you want. You should be able to set this on the chart, i.e.
chart.radioButtonMode(true);