Connected scatterplot

This is a recreation of Hannah Fairfield’s Driving Shifts Into Reverse, sans annotations. See also Fairfield’s Driving Safety, in Fits and Starts, Noah Veltman’s variation of this graphic, and a paper on connected scatterplots by Haroz et al.

replay;

// Declare the chart dimensions and margins.
const width = 928;
const height = 720;
const marginTop = 20;
const marginRight = 30;
const marginBottom = 30;
const marginLeft = 40;

// A helper to measure the length of an SVG path string.
const length = (path) => d3.create("svg:path").attr("d", path).node().getTotalLength();

// Declare the positional encodings.
const x = d3.scaleLinear()
    .domain(d3.extent(driving, (d) => d.miles)).nice()
    .range([marginLeft, width - marginRight]);

const y = d3.scaleLinear()
    .domain(d3.extent(driving, (d) => d.gas)).nice()
    .range([height - marginBottom, marginTop]);

const line = d3.line()
    .curve(d3.curveCatmullRom)
    .x((d) => x(d.miles))
    .y((d) => y(d.gas));

const svg = d3.create("svg")
    .attr("width", width)
    .attr("height", height)
    .attr("viewBox", [0, 0, width, height])
    .attr("style", "max-width: 100%; height: auto;");

const l = length(line(driving));

svg.append("g")
    .attr("transform", `translate(0,${height - marginBottom})`)
    .call(d3.axisBottom(x).ticks(width / 80))
    .call((g) => g.select(".domain").remove())
    .call((g) => g.selectAll(".tick line").clone()
        .attr("y2", -height)
        .attr("stroke-opacity", 0.1))
    .call((g) => g.append("text")
        .attr("x", width - 4)
        .attr("y", -4)
        .attr("font-weight", "bold")
        .attr("text-anchor", "end")
        .attr("fill", "currentColor")
        .text("Miles per person per year"));

svg.append("g")
  .attr("transform", `translate(${marginLeft},0)`)
  .call(d3.axisLeft(y).ticks(null, "$.2f"))
  .call((g) => g.select(".domain").remove())
  .call((g) => g.selectAll(".tick line").clone()
      .attr("x2", width)
      .attr("stroke-opacity", 0.1))
  .call((g) => g.select(".tick:last-of-type text").clone()
      .attr("x", 4)
      .attr("text-anchor", "start")
      .attr("font-weight", "bold")
      .text("Cost per gallon"));

svg.append("path")
    .datum(driving)
    .attr("fill", "none")
    .attr("stroke", "black")
    .attr("stroke-width", 2.5)
    .attr("stroke-linejoin", "round")
    .attr("stroke-linecap", "round")
    .attr("stroke-dasharray", `0,${l}`)
    .attr("d", line)
  .transition()
    .duration(5000)
    .ease(d3.easeLinear)
    .attr("stroke-dasharray", `${l},${l}`);

svg.append("g")
    .attr("fill", "white")
    .attr("stroke", "black")
    .attr("stroke-width", 2)
  .selectAll("circle")
  .data(driving)
  .join("circle")
    .attr("cx", (d) => x(d.miles))
    .attr("cy", (d) => y(d.gas))
    .attr("r", 3);

const label = svg.append("g")
    .attr("font-family", "sans-serif")
    .attr("font-size", 10)
  .selectAll()
  .data(driving)
  .join("text")
    .attr("transform", (d) => `translate(${x(d.miles)},${y(d.gas)})`)
    .attr("fill-opacity", 0)
    .text((d) => d.year)
      .attr("stroke", "white")
      .attr("paint-order", "stroke")
      .attr("fill", "currentColor")
      .each(function(d) {
        const t = d3.select(this);
        switch (d.side) {
          case "top": t.attr("text-anchor", "middle").attr("dy", "-0.7em"); break;
          case "right": t.attr("dx", "0.5em").attr("dy", "0.32em").attr("text-anchor", "start"); break;
          case "bottom": t.attr("text-anchor", "middle").attr("dy", "1.4em"); break;
          case "left": t.attr("dx", "-0.5em").attr("dy", "0.32em").attr("text-anchor", "end"); break;
        }
      });

label.transition()
    .delay((d, i) => length(line(driving.slice(0, i + 1))) / l * (5000 - 125))
    .attr("fill-opacity", 1);

display(svg.node());
const driving = FileAttachment("data/driving.csv").csv({typed: true}).then(display);
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