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Parallel Coordinates

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Last edited Feb 25, 2017

Created on Feb 25, 2017

This parallel coordinates visualization displays data for cars from the 1970s and 1980s from a CSV file, mapping each car as a polyline across vertical axes representing dimensions such as economy, cylinders, displacement, power, weight, and acceleration. The visualization allows users to interactively reorder axes and brush along any dimension to filter the dataset. Built with D3 v3, it uses `d3.svg.line()`, `d3.svg.axis()`, and `d3.svg.brush()` for rendering and interaction, with SVG paths for the background and foreground lines.

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This is a version of Mike Bostock’s parallel coordinates example, modified to include reorderable axes.

This parallel coordinates visualization of cars from the ‘70s and ‘80s demonstrates one of D3 2.5.0’s new interactive features: the brush component. By clicking and dragging along any axis, you can specify a filter for that dimension. The brush component is also used in the updated scatterplot matrix example.

forked from <a href='http://bl.ocks.org/jasondavies/'>jasondavies</a>'s block: <a href='http://bl.ocks.org/jasondavies/1341281'>Parallel Coordinates</a>

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