Grouped bar chart
This grouped bar chart compares responses across six professional categories—Student, Liberal Profession, Salaried Staff, Employee, Craftsman, and Inactive—to a survey question with five ordered answer options, from “Not at all” to “Tremendously.” The data is loaded from a JSON file and rendered using D3 v3 with SVG.
The visualization uses a nested ordinal scale layout: the x-axis groups categories, and within each group, bars represent the five response rates, colored using a ColorBrewer diverging scheme. The y-axis encodes counts, with a hidden axis that fades in after 1.3 seconds. Upon loading, bars animate upward from zero with a randomized delay (up to 1 second), creating a staggered reveal effect. Bars also respond to hover by darkening the fill color, and a legend appears to identify the rates. The grouped bar chart effectively compares response distributions across six occupation groups, from "Student" to "Inactive." The data is loaded from an external JSON file, and the visualization uses D3 v3 with SVG rendering and animation.
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(truncated because the original is too long)The grouped bar chart compares survey responses across six occupational categories—from Student to Inactive—against five agreement levels, from "Not at all" to "Tremendously." Each category occupies a band along the horizontal axis, divided into color-coded bars for each response option. A five-tone blue-to-red palette distinguishes the levels. Bars animate upward from zero with randomized delays, creating a lively cascading effect. Hovering darkens a bar temporarily. A legend fades in on the right, and the y-axis appears after the bars settle, guiding the eye through the counts per group. The chart clearly highlights, for example, that "Liberal Profession" skews toward "Not very much" and "Very much," while "Employee" peaks at "Medium." This grouped layout supports quick comparison of response distributions across the six occupational categories.