Percent Bee Colony Loss by State and Year
This visualization displays the percentage of bee colony loss across U.S. states and years using a heatmap of rectangles, with each square color-coded on a red scale to highlight loss intensity. States are sorted by worst overall losses, and tooltips reveal exact values for state, year, and percentage. The chart is built with vega-lite-api and d3.v5, using a CSV data source from a GitHub gist. The encoding maps state to the x-axis, year to the y-axis, and the quantitative loss field to color.