@visx/scale
Installation
npm install --save @visx/scale
Overview of scales
The @visx/scale
package aims to provide a wrapper around existing d3
scaling originally defined
in the d3-scale package.
Scales are functions that help you map your data values to the physical pixel size that your graph requires. For example, let's say you wanted to create a bar chart to show populations per country. If you were to use a 1-to-1 scale (IE: 1 pixel per y value) your bar for the USA would be about 321.4 million pixels high!
Instead, you can tell visx
a function to use that takes a data value (like your population per
country) and quantitatively maps to another dimensional space, like pixels.
For example, we could create a linear scale like this:
const graphWidth = 500;
const graphHeight = 200;
const [minX, maxX] = getXMinAndMax();
const [minY, maxY] = getYMinAndMax();
const xScale = Scale.scaleLinear({
domain: [minX, maxX], // x-coordinate data values
range: [0, graphWidth], // svg x-coordinates, svg x-coordinates increase left to right
round: true,
});
const yScale = Scale.scaleLinear({
domain: [minY, maxY], // y-coordinate data values
// svg y-coordinates, these increase from top to bottom so we reverse the order
// so that minY in data space maps to graphHeight in svg y-coordinate space
range: [graphHeight, 0],
round: true,
});
// ...
const points = data.map((d, i) => {
const barHeight = graphHeight - yScale(d.y);
return <Shape.Bar height={barHeight} y={graphHeight - barHeight} />;
});
Different types of scales
Band scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scaleBand({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
padding,
nice = false
*/
});
Linear scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scaleLinear({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
nice = false,
clamp = false,
*/
});
Log scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scaleLog({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
base,
nice = false,
clamp = false,
*/
});
Important note: As log(0) = -∞, a log scale domain must be strictly-positive or strictly-negative; the domain must not include or cross zero.
Radial scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scaleRadial({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
nice = false,
clamp = false,
*/
});
Ordinal scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scaleOrdinal({
/*
range,
domain,
unknown,
*/
});
Point scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scalePoint({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
padding,
align,
nice = false,
*/
});
Power scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scalePower({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
exponent,
nice = false,
clamp = false,
*/
});
Square Root scale
Example:
// No need to set the exponent, It is always 0.5
const scale = Scale.scaleSqrt({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
nice = false,
clamp = false,
*/
});
Time scale
Example:
const scale = Scale.scaleTime({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
nice = false,
clamp = false,
*/
});
You also can scale time with Coordinated Universal Time via scaleUtc
.
Example:
const scale = Scale.scaleUtc({
/*
range,
round,
domain,
nice = false,
clamp = false,
*/
});
Color Scales
D3 scales offer the ability to map points to colors. You can use
d3-scale-chromatic
in conjunction with visx's
scaleOrdinal
to make color scales.
You can install d3-scale-chromatic
with npm:
npm install --save d3-scale-chromatic
You create a color scale like so:
import { scaleOrdinal } from '@visx/scale';
import { schemeSet1 } from 'd3-scale-chromatic';
const colorScale = scaleOrdinal({
domain: arrayOfThings,
range: schemeSet1,
});
This generates a color scale with the following colors:
There are a number of other categorical color schemes available, along with other continuous color schemes.