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Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick Zhu
Book Image

Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick Zhu

Overview of this book

Master D3.js and create amazing visualizations with the Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook. Written by professional data engineer Nick Zhu, this D3.js cookbook features over 65 recipes. ? Solve real-world visualization problems using D3.js practical recipes ? Understand D3 fundamentals ? Includes illustrations, ready-to-go code samples and pre-built chart recipes
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Data Visualization with D3 4.x Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Building a stacked area chart


In the Creating an area chart recipe in Chapter 8, Chart Them Up, we explored how a basic layered area chart can be implemented using D3. In this recipe, we will build over what we covered in the area chart recipe to implement a stacked area chart. Stacked area chart is a variation of the standard area chart in which different areas are stacked on top of each other giving your audience the ability to compare not only different data series individually but also their relationship to the total in proportion.

Getting ready

Open your local copy of the following file in your web browser: https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook-v2/blob/master/src/chapter9/stacked-area-chart.html

How to do it...

This recipe is built over what we had implemented in Chapter 8, Chart Them Up; therefore, in the following code example, only the parts that are particularly relevant to the stacked area chart are included:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
function stackedAreaChart...