D3.js animated grouped bar chart with variable number of groups - javascript

I am trying to adapt the animated grouped bar chart example from
https://bl.ocks.org/aholachek/fb0c1cd7ea9707bc8ff55a82402c54b1
for my own purposes. One modification that I am stuck at right now is that my data will have a variable number of groups and the xAxes and blocks have to resize accordingly.
I have already added the resizing of the domains with
x0.domain(data[Object.keys(data)[0]].map(obj =>obj.name))
x1.domain(valueKeys).rangeRound([0, x0.bandwidth()])
in the update function, but this does not seem to be enough. While the width of the bars is resized correctly, the x values are not spaced out evenly and instead get pushed into the far right corner of the graph when adding more elements after the initial creation for example.
For now I only care about the grouped version, not the stacked one.
I would appeciate any pointers

Problem could be solved by clearing out the barContainer before the update. This of course prevents transitions on the already existing bars, but that is good enough for me

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I want to draw a D3 pie chart. Initially the arc segments will be hidden, then I want to animate them sequantially one by one to make them visible in response to keyboard/mouse events from the application flow.
The application flow is a linear: E.g. part 1, animate first arc segment to make it visible. Part 2, animate second segment to make it visible. Part 3, etc. until the pie is completely visible.
I'm interested in using the Swiper project - http://www.idangero.us/swiper/api/#.VqemYVOLQmI - so moving to each slide would trigger an event that would make an arc visible (i.e. onSlideChangeEnd would show each sequential arc)
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This could make each sequential arc visible in response to each event.
However that’s not quite the look I’m going for - I want the animation on the fill of the arc to appear like it’s moving from left to right, e.g. in this kind of "sweep" animation: http://jsfiddle.net/thmain/xL48ru9k/1/
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dc.js - horizontal bar chart / row chat, or rotate d3.svg?

Is there a way to create a horizontal bar chart (or modify the row chat)?
The row chart does almost what I want, however I want the y axis to be a continuous variable and it seems the row chart defines the y axis in terms of discrete/ordinal variables.
I was also thinking about rotating the svg with d3. (Rotating the whole div worked, however the brush effect did not rotate too).
I was thinking:
dc.renderAll();
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Update:
I am having some success with rotating the svg (the brush works), however the graph is being cut off and I can't figure out why...
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It is an eventual goal to merge them, but for now I think rotating is your best bet.
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I need to find out where to draw my y axis dependent of a date
My data looks like the following in .csv format:
startYYYYMM, endYYYYMM, ProjectName
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I've done the chart as laying bar chart
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I wonder If there is any built in "optimization" in d3 that I can use. I release that I can loop through my data to decide "the grouping" of my data.
And a pic of how I would like it to look like:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xs0jfxb33ipn60/temp.jpg
/Thank's
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To get that "optimized function based on date" that figures out where on the Y-domain you can fit a project to keep the display compact, you're going to need to keep track of which projects are active at a given time, and loop through them to find out where you have room on your display for a new project.
Here's an algorithm you could implement. The results won't always be perfect (sometimes a small rectangle will end up taking up room in a space where a larger rectangle could have been positioned) but it should be much more compact than a standard Gantt chart.
Sort your projects by start date and work through them in that order, assigning y-positions to each.
As you work through your project list, keep a secondary array of "active" projects -- ones that have been started but not finished at the time you are looking. These will always be projects that you have already positioned on the graph, since you're positioning projects in order of start time.
For each project in your main array:
go through the active-project array (if it's not empty) and remove any projects that finished before the project you are plotting started (if you want padding between rectangles, require a certain minimum time to have passed in between);
sort the active-project array by the y-position you have already assigned to each project-rectangle;
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either way, store the calculated y position (which will be in the same units as the variable you are using for rectangle height) in the project's data-object.
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Animating div on top of Highcharts very slow

I am writing an app that uses Highcharts, and in one instance I want to have a "slider" at the bottom of the chart that extends up vertically over the chart. Moving the slider will update other parts of the page based on where the user moves the slider on the chart.
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I suspect the slowness is because the browser has to redraw the chart (either the whole thing or parts of it) as the div slides over it. With a large data set to redraw the chart from, this becomes annoyingly slow.
There are solutions, but not all of them are always acceptable:
You can try reducing the number of points in your data set by sampling it at a lower rate.
You can try windowing, so that the viewer only shows a range within the entire set. For example, if you have 10,000 data points your window can slide along the data set, showing only 1,500 points at a time as opposed to all 10,000 points.
Move to a different technology such as Flash or Silverlight.
Like I said, though, not all of these or even any of them will work for you.
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