Data Commons bar chart Web Component
Data Commons Web Component for visualizing one or more statistical variables around one or more places on a bar chart.
Usage
<datacommons-bar
header="Populations of USA, India, and China"
places="country/USA country/IND country/CHN"
variables="Count_Person"
maxPlaces="15"
></datacommons-bar>
<datacommons-bar
header="Most populous states in the US"
parentPlace="country/USA"
childPlaceType="State"
variables="Count_Person"
maxPlaces="15"
></datacommons-bar>
Attributes
Required
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
childPlaceType | string | Child place types to plot. Example: State . For a list of available place types, see the place types page.places is specified. |
header | string | Chart title. |
parentPlace | string | Parent place DCID to plot. Example: country/USA . places is specified. |
places | list | Places DCIDs to plot, as a space separated list of strings. Example: "geoId/12 geoId/13" . childPlaceType and parentPlace are specified. |
variables | list | Variable DCID(s) to plot, as a space separated list of strings. Example: "Count_Person Count_Farm" . |
Optional
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
barHeight | number | Bar height (in px) for horizontal charts. |
colors | list | Specify custom color for each variable. Pass in colors in the same order as variables. Values should follow CSS specification (keywords, rgb, rgba, hsl, #hex). Separate multiple values with spaces, e.g., "#ff0000 #00ff00 #0000ff" . Make sure individual colors have no spaces. For example, use rgba(255,0,0,0.3) instead of rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.3) . |
disableEntityLink | boolean | Include to disable entity (place) links in the x-axis. Default: false (links are enabled) |
horizontal | boolean | Include to draw bars horizontally instead of vertically. |
lollipop | boolean | Include to draw lollipops instead of bars. |
maxPlaces | number | Maximum number of child places to plot. Default: 7 . |
maxVariables | number | Maximum number of varibales to plot. Default: show all variables. |
sort | string | Bar chart sort order. Options: - ascending (ascending by the variable’s value)- descending (descending by variable’s value)- ascendingPopulation (ascending by the place’s population)- descendingPopulation (descending by the place’s population)Default: descendingPopulation |
stacked | boolean | Include to draw as stacked bar chart instead of grouped chart. |
subscribe | string | Listen for data changes on this event channel. Channel name should match the publish name on a control component. Example: datacommons-slider |
Advanced Configuration
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
apiRoot | string | Domain to make data fetch API calls from. Used primarily for fetching data from custom DCs. Default: https://datacommons.org . |
defaultVariableName | string | To be used with variableNameRegex . If specified and no variable name is extracted out with the regex, use this as the variable name. e.g., if the variableNameRegex is “(.*?)(?=:)”, and the defaultVariableName is “Total”, for a variable named “variable 1”, it will become “Total”. |
placeNameProp | string | Optionally specify the property to use to get the place names. |
showExploreMore | boolean | Include to show “Explore more” link in the footer, which takes the user to Datacommons.org’s visualization tools. |
variableNameRegex | string | Optionally specify regex to use to extract out variable name. e.g., if the variableNameRegex is “(.*?)(?=:)”, only the part before a “:” will be used for variable names. So “variable 1: test” will become “variable 1”. |
yAxisMargin | number | Set size (in px) of y-axis’ margin to fit the axis label text. Default: 60px. |
Examples
Example 1: A bar chart of population for states in the US
Code:
<datacommons-bar
header="Population of US States"
parentPlace="country/USA"
childPlaceType="State"
variables="Count_Person"
></datacommons-bar>
Example 2: A bar chart of population for specific US states
Code:
<datacommons-bar
header="Population of US States"
variables="Count_Person"
places="geoId/01 geoId/02"
></datacommons-bar>
Example 3: A stacked bar chart of population by gender for specific US states
Code:
<datacommons-bar
header="Population of US States"
variables="Count_Person"
places="geoId/01 geoId/02"
stacked
></datacommons-bar>
Example 4: A horizontal, stacked bar chart of median income for specific US states
Code:
<datacommons-bar
header="Median income by gender"
variables="Median_Income_Person_15OrMoreYears_Male_WithIncome Median_Income_Person_15OrMoreYears_Female_WithIncome"
places="geoId/01 geoId/02 geoId/04 geoId/20 geoId/21 geoId/22 geoId/23 geoId/24 geoId/25"
stacked
horizontal
sort="descending"
></datacommons-bar>
Example 5: A lollipop chart of population for states in the US
Code:
<datacommons-bar
header="Population of US States"
parentPlace="country/USA"
childPlaceType="State"
variables="Count_Person"
lollipop
></datacommons-bar>
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