trouble with scales and hebin in d3js - d3.js

Question

I am trying to use the hexbin layout with data that is normally distributed around 0 - all the examples use data centered around the center of the screen, so the scales are the same as the screen scales (except for y inversion)
I've tried to modify the scale functions to account for possible negative values. It works for the y-scale, but the x-scale gives NaNs, and the hexagons are plotted off the screen upper left. That is not the only problem - I would like to programmatically determine the bin size for the hexbin function - in my data series, all of the values are 'binned' into only one to three hexagons, and I need them spread out over the available domain.. here is my code
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.hexbin.v0.min.js?5c6e4f0"></script>
<script>
minMultArray =function(arr,index){
var min = arr[0][index];
for (i=0;i<arr.length;i++) {
min = (min>arr[i][index]?arr[i][index]:min);
}
return min;
};
maxMultArray =function(arr,index){
var max = arr[0][index];
for (i=0;i<arr.length;i++) {
max = (max< arr[i][index]?arr[i][index]:max);
}
return max;
};
var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 30, left: 40},
width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
var randomX = d3.random.normal(0, 5),
randomY = d3.random.normal(0, 6),
points = d3.range(2000).map(function() { return [randomX(), randomY()]; });
var minX = minMultArray(points,0);
var minY = minMultArray(points,1);
//var minZ = minMultArray(points,2);
var maxX = maxMultArray(points,0);
var maxY = maxMultArray(points,1);
//var maxZ = maxMultArray(points,2);
var color = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([0, 20])
.range(["white", "steelblue"])
.interpolate(d3.interpolateLab);
var hexbin = d3.hexbin()
.size([width, height])
.radius(20);
alert('minX='+minX +' maxX='+maxX);
var x = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([minX, maxX])
.range(0,width);
alert('xScale(3)='+x(3));
var y = d3.scale.linear()
.domain([minY, maxY])
.range([height, 0]);
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(x)
.orient("bottom")
.tickSize(6, -height);
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
.scale(y)
.orient("left")
.tickSize(6, -width);
console.log('hex = ' +hexbin(points));
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
svg.append("clipPath")
.attr("id", "clip")
.append("rect")
.attr("class", "mesh")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
svg.append("g")
.attr("clip-path", "url(#clip)")
.selectAll(".hexagon")
.data(hexbin(points))
.enter().append("path")
.attr("class", "hexagon")
.attr("d", hexbin.hexagon())
.attr("transform", function(d) { return "translate(" + (d.x) + "," + (d.y) + ")"; })
.style("fill", function(d) { return color(d.length); });
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "y axis")
.call(yAxis);
svg.append("g")
.attr("class", "x axis")
.attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
.call(xAxis);
</script>

Answer 1

After more debugging the hexbin functions, they are not compatible with negative and/or fractional domains- so I solved this by mapping my original data by linear scales up to the height and width of the hexagon plots. Then bin size is controlled by radius. I also modified the hexbin binning function to handle three element arrays, and can compute stats on the third element, using color or size to show mean/median/stddev/max/min. If interested, I can post the code on github...