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Question: Change the stroke of the circles that represent the year 1973 to be a different color from those that represent the year 1974.

Very Confused

Code:

js/app.js

// height and width of the svg
var height = 800, width = 500;

var padding = 50;

var viz = d3.select("#viz-wrapper")
    .append('svg')
    .attr('id', 'viz')
    .attr('height', height)
    .attr('width', width);

d3.csv('app/climate_data_truncated.csv', function(data) {

    dots = viz.selectAll('circle')
        .data(data)
        .enter()
        .append('circle');

    dots.attr('r', function(d) {return Math.abs(d.TMIN) / 10})
        .attr('cx', function(d) {return Math.max(0 + padding, Math.random() * width - padding)})
        .attr('cy', function(d) {return Math.max(0 + padding, Math.random() * height - padding )})
        .style('stroke', 'red')
        .style('fill', function(d) {
            year = d.DATE.substring(0,4)
            if (year === "1973") {
                return "blue"
            }
            else {
                return "#ff00f5"
            }
        });
});

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Requests</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="viz-wrapper">
    </div>
  </body>
  <script src="js/d3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
  <script src="js/app.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</html>

Answer 1 · 2015-03-16T03:09:59Z

March 16, 2015 3:09am

It's asking you to change the stroke color based on the year. This is done with a conditional just like the fill property is being returned based on the year. Finished code should look like this:

// height and width of the svg
var height = 800, width = 500;

var padding = 50;

var viz = d3.select("#viz-wrapper")
    .append('svg')
    .attr('id', 'viz')
    .attr('height', height)
    .attr('width', width);

d3.csv('app/climate_data_truncated.csv', function(data) {

    dots = viz.selectAll('circle')
        .data(data)
        .enter()
        .append('circle');

    dots.attr('r', function(d) {return Math.abs(d.TMIN) / 10})
        .attr('cx', function(d) {return Math.max(0 + padding, Math.random() * width - padding)})
        .attr('cy', function(d) {return Math.max(0 + padding, Math.random() * height - padding )})
        .style('stroke',  function(d) {
            year = d.DATE.substring(0,4)
            if (year === "1973") {
                return "yellow"
            }
            else {
                return "orange"
            }
        })
        .style('fill', function(d) {
            year = d.DATE.substring(0,4)
            if (year === "1973") {
                return "blue"
            }
            else {
                return "#ff00f5"
            }
        });
});

hope this helps

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