Frequency of letters used in the English language

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Frequency of letters used in the English language

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Last edited Nov 12, 2021

Created on Nov 10, 2021

This example visualizes the frequency of letters in the English language as a horizontal bar chart. The 26 letters are sorted from most to least frequent, with each bar’s length proportional to its percentage occurrence. The chart is built using D3 v7, with `d3.scaleBand` for the categorical letter axis and `d3.scaleLinear` for the frequency values. Data is hardcoded as an array of objects, sourced from a StackOverflow discussion, and rendered via SVG rectangles with `d3.axisLeft` and `d3.axisBottom` for the axes.

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Bar chart of use frequency of letters in the English language. The data came from a StackOverflow post about getting data for d3 from an array rather than a csv file: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21639305/d3js-take-data-from-an-array-instead-of-a-file

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