The margin convention on bar chart

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The margin convention on bar chart

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Created on Oct 18, 2021

This example demonstrates the margin convention in bar charts, showing how to position axes and plot marks within a designated plotting area. It uses React to render SVG elements and d3’s `scaleBand` and `scaleLinear` to map countries and population values from a CSV loaded via `d3.csv`. Grid lines and tick labels are generated from `xScale.ticks()`, with the plot group translated by a specified margin inset from the SVG viewport.

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Loads external data using d3's csv utility and renders on a "pathetic" barchart

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