Exercise: Visualizing data | Observable | Observable
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Tom MacWright
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hi!
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Botond Balázs
Sep 9, 2020
Here I needed to add `type: "quantitative"` to `encoding.y` to make this a real bar chart instead of a weird scatter plot with square markers.
Anjana Vakil
Nov 14, 2020
Thanks for flagging this! This was likely due to API changes since this tutorial was published. Updated here and in the finished result notebook.
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