Time Series Histogram
This chart displays a histogram of reported rat sightings in New York City between January 2010 and September 2014, binned by month. Each bar’s height represents the monthly count, drawn as steel-blue rectangles in an SVG. The visualization uses the D3.js v3 library, specifically `d3.time.scale()`, `d3.layout.histogram()`, and `d3.svg.axis()`, to parse dates, bin the data, and render axes. The data comes from NYC Open Data’s Rat Sightings dataset, which includes timestamps and location coordinates for each report.