Making a Bar Chart with D3.js and SVG

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Making a Bar Chart with D3.js and SVG

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Last edited Jul 21, 2020

Created on Jul 21, 2020

This example shows a horizontal bar chart of the populations of ten countries, ordered from largest to smallest, using data from a local CSV file. The visualization renders as an SVG graphic, with the chart’s axes and bars generated through D3.js v5 functions like `scaleLinear` and `scaleBand`, and draws the axis ticks with `axisLeft` and `axisBottom`.

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