How do I make a scatter plot of lines in D3?

Question

I have a series of paired xy coordinates that create 58 lines. I want to plot them on a Cartesian graph, values are between -5 and 5 on both axis, essentially making a scatter plot of lines. I have made something similar in matplotlib using the quiver function, but I want to be able to do this in D3. I would also like to be able to label each line, or each line that meets a length threshold. The code I have come up with below. Thanks.

var lisa = [["Eloy",0.0169808,-0.695317,-0.0510301,-0.6995938],
["Florence",-0.3465685,-0.6790588,-0.5869514,-0.6762134],
["Phoenix",0.677068,-0.5754814,-0.6052215,-0.6158059],
["Tucson",-0.663848,0.4111043,-0.6722116,0.011639]]

var w = 200;
var h = 200;
//create the svg element and set the height and width parameters
var svg =  d3.select("div").select("div")
    .append("svg")
    .attr("height",h)
    .attr("width", w)
    .style("border", "1px solid black");

//Create the scale for the scatter plot
var xScale = d3.scale.linear()
    .domain([d3.min(dataset, function(d) { return d[0];}),d3.max(dataset, function(d) { return d[0];})])
    .range([-1,1]);
var yScale = d3.scale.linear()
    .domain([d3.min(dataset, function(d) { return d[1];}),d3.max(dataset, function(d) { return d[1];})])
    .range([-1,1]);

//This is the function that creates the SVG lines
var line = svg.selectAll("line")
    .data(lisa)
    .enter()
    .append("line");

//This gets the cooresponding x,y cordinates from the dataset
line.attr("x1", function(d) {
    return xScale(d[0]);
})
.attr("y1", function(d) {
    return yScale(d[1]);
})
.attr("x2", function(d) {
    return xScale(d[2]);
})
.attr("y2", function(d) {
    return yScale(d[3]);
})
.attr("stroke", "black");

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Answer 1

Your code has some problems:

First, your range right now ([-1, 1]) makes no sense. This should be the domain instead (I changed the ranges to [0, w] and [0, h]).

In your real code, the domain should be [-5, 5] and the range should be the limits of the plot, something like [leftLimit, rightLimit] and [topLimit, bottomLimit] (have in mind that, in an SVG, the 0 position for the y axis is the top, not the bottom).

Second, given this array:

["Tucson",-0.663848,0.4111043,-0.6722116,0.011639]

your x and y positions should be the indices 1,2,3 and 4, not 0, 1, 2 and 3.

Besides that changes, I added the labels:

var text = svg.selectAll(".text")
    .data(dataset)
    .enter()
    .append("text");

text.attr("font-size", 10)
    .attr("x", function(d) {
        return xScale(d[1]);
    })
    .attr("y", function(d) {
        return yScale(d[2]);
    })
    .text(d => d[0]);

Here is the demo with the corrections:

var dataset = [["Eloy",0.0169808,-0.695317,-0.0510301,-0.6995938],
["Florence",-0.3465685,-0.6790588,-0.5869514,-0.6762134],
["Phoenix",0.677068,-0.5754814,-0.6052215,-0.6158059],
["Tucson",-0.663848,0.4111043,-0.6722116,0.011639]];

var color = d3.scale.category10();

var w = 400;
var h = 300;
//create the svg element and set the height and width parameters
var svg =  d3.select("body")
    .append("svg")
    .attr("height",h)
    .attr("width", w)
    .style("border", "1px solid black");

//Create the scale for the scatter plot
var xScale = d3.scale.linear()
    .domain([-1,1])
    .range([0,w]);
var yScale = d3.scale.linear()
    .domain([-1,1])
    .range([0,h]);

//This is the function that creates the SVG lines
var line = svg.selectAll("line")
    .data(dataset)
    .enter()
    .append("line");

//This gets the cooresponding x,y cordinates from the dataset
line.attr("x1", function(d) {
    return xScale(d[1]);
})
.attr("y1", function(d) {
    return yScale(d[2]);
})
.attr("x2", function(d) {
    return xScale(d[3]);
})
.attr("y2", function(d) {
    return yScale(d[4]);
})
.attr("stroke-width", 2)
.attr("stroke", (d,i)=>color(i));

var text = svg.selectAll(".text")
    .data(dataset)
    .enter()
    .append("text");

text.attr("font-size", 10)
.attr("x", function(d) {
    return xScale(d[1])+2;
})
.attr("y", function(d) {
    return yScale(d[2]) + 4;
})
.text(d=>d[0]);

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