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Historian of early America, Indigenous history, and material culture
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Making a bar chart 3 ways
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Maeve Kane
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Oct 11, 2020
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`# Basic bar chart in Vega-Lite`
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vl
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markBar
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data
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data
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width
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700
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encode
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vl
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x
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fieldN
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"date"
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timeUnit
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"monthyear"
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vl
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y
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fieldQ
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"value"
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render
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`### Get the data`
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data
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"data.csv"
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csv
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`### Import Vega Lite`
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import
{
vl
}
from
"@vega/vega-lite-api"
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