Graph ~ axis alignment issue - d3.js

I'm currently working on a quite basic graph using 2 ordinal axes. X axis shows 4 categories, Y axis shows 3. For some reason, the plotted circles don't align with the plotted axes.
An example can be seen at http://jsfiddle.net/SrdY6/. Problem seems to be translation-related, but the only translation in there is applied to the large containing <g> element:
var lunchgraph = svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "lunchgraph")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + lunchmargin.left + "," + lunchmargin.top + ")");
I've been looking at this for some time now, but can't spot where things go wrong... Anyone with more insight?

Nothing like putting a question out there and risking public shame, only to find out the answer within minutes after posting.
For ordinal axes configured with rangeBands or rangeRoundBands, the scale function returns the lower value of the given input. To have the plot align with the exact categorical labels, you need to add half of the rangeBand to the calculated coordinate.
So: no problem with the translations or anything, but with the computation of cx and cy coordinates for placing the circles in the graph.
Correct code:
.attr("cx", function(d) { return x(d.label) + x.rangeBand()/2 ;} )
.attr("cy", function(d) { return y(d.sqid) + y.rangeBand()/2 ; } )

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I am triying to create a line chart which will have multiple y axis but a common x axis using d3, can somebod provide me the example how to create it with D3 library. It should be something like as shown below
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I'm building my first line graph in d3:
http://jsfiddle.net/j94RZ/
I want to know how to utilize either the scale or axis allow me to draw a grid (of, presumably rectangles) where I can set a different background colour for each of the section of the grid...so I can alternate colours for each cell of the grid. I want the grid to be drawn and be constrained by the axes of my graph and then also adapt if the spacing of the axes ticks change (i.e. the axes changes like this: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1667367). So if my graph has an x axis with 4 ticks and a y axis of 7 ticks then my graph will have a background grid that's 7 blocks high and 4 blocks wide.
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return xScale(i);
})
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return yScale(j);
})
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I've created the range bands by using the number of ticks on my axis as a basis for the range of the input domain:
var xScale = d3.scale.ordinal()
.domain(d3.range(10))
.rangeRoundBands([0, width],0);
var yScale = d3.scale.ordinal()
.domain(d3.range(4))
.rangeRoundBands([0, height],0);
I've then tried drawing the rectangles out like so:
svg.selectAll("rect")
.data(p)
.enter()
.append("rect")
.attr("x", function(d, i) {
return xScale(i);
})
.attr("y", function(d,i) {
0
})
.attr("width", xScale.rangeBand())
.attr("height", yScale.rangeBand())
.attr("fill", "green").
attr('stroke','red');
This gets me the desired effect but for only one row deep:
http://jsfiddle.net/Ny2FJ/2/
I want,somehow to draw the green blocks for the whole table (and also without having to hard code the amount of ticks in the ordinal scales domain). I tried to then apply the range bands to the y axis like so (knowing that this wouldn't really work though) http://jsfiddle.net/Ny2FJ/3/
svg.selectAll("rect")
.data(p)
.enter()
.append("rect")
.attr("x", function(d, i) {
return xScale(i);
})
.attr("y", function(d,i) {
return yScale(i);
})
.attr("width", xScale.rangeBand())
.attr("height", yScale.rangeBand())
.attr("fill", "green").
attr('stroke','red');
The only way I can think to do this is to introduce a for loop to run the block of code in this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Ny2FJ/2/ for each tick of the y axis.

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.append("g")
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Alex
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You should be able to take initial plot coordinates and invert them to determine data coordinates that can then move with changes in the scale.
If the scale is linear you can probably invert the length and width too, but you will have to compute offsets if your domain does not include 0. Easiest is to compute the rectangle's end points, something like:
var dataX0 = xScale.invert(rect.x);
var dataX1 = xScale.invert(rect.x + rect.width);
var dataWidth = dataX1 - dataX0;
If you have the data in axes coordinates already you should be able to do something like:
var rectData = [{x: 'April 1, 1999', y: 10000, width: 100, height:100}];
svg.selectAll('rect.boxy')
.data(rectData)
.enter().append('rect').classed('boxy', true)
.style('fill','black');
svg.selectAll('rect.boxy')
.attr('x', function(d) { return x(new Date(d.x));} )
.attr('y', function(d) { return y(d.y);})
.attr('width', function(d) { return d.width;} )
.attr('height', function(d) { return d.height;} );
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