D3 Bar Chart Update Pattern

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D3 Bar Chart Update Pattern

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Last edited Dec 1, 2015

Created on Aug 29, 2014

This example demonstrates the D3 update pattern by progressively revealing a bar chart of letter frequencies from a TSV file. Each letter’s bar animates in sequence, with exiting bars shrinking and fading via transitions. The code uses d3.scale.ordinal and d3.scale.linear, d3.svg.axis, and d3.tsv for loading, with enter, exit, and update selections driven by transition().duration(300). Rendering is SVG with an animated y-axis and bar height transitions.

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This animated bar chart is adapted from Mike Bostock's sample bar chart to allow redrawing and animated transitions.

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