Point

A component that renders points in a designated area. Typically used to create:

Scatter plot
Bubble chart
Distribution plot
Heat maps

Data

Add a point component in the components:

components: [
  {
    type: "point",
    data: {
      extract: {
        field: "Year",
        props: {
          y: { field: "Sales" },
          mar: { field: "Margin" },
        },
      },
    },
  },
];

Within the point component, you first set the type of a component to point then define a data object where you extract the Year value from the previously provided data set ( a matrix data set - a 2D-array containing the fields Year, Month, Sales and Margin) for each row and define that Sales and Margin which should be mapped to the arbitrary properties y and mar for each data item.

Scales

Add the scales object:

scales: {
  s: {
    data: {
      field: 'Sales'
    },
    invert: true,
    expand: 0.1
  },
  m: {
    data: {
      field: 'Margin'
    },
    expand: 0.1
  }
}

Here scales s and m are defined, which take their data from the fields Sales and Margin respectively. Both scales can be either linear or ordinal scale. Depending on what kind of visualization you want to create. If you do not explicitly specify the type of a scale, it is usually detected automatically based on the meta-information of the provided field - if the field only contains strings, it is a band scale, otherwise, a linear scale is created by default.

Visual properties

Define the visual properties for this point component through its settings object:

components: [{
  type: 'point',
  data: {...}
  settings: {
    x: { scale: 'm', ref: 'mar' },
    y: { scale: 's' },
    size: () => Math.random(),
    opacity: 0.8
  },
}]

There are three ways to define the value for a visual property:

An object containing a reference to a scale and an extracted data value

For the x position, you use m as a scale and reference the mar property in the extracted item. In cases when the visual property has the same name as the data property, there is no need to set an explicit ref, as is the case with y.

A function, which is executed once per data item

The size of each bubble is randomized between 0 and 1

A constant

The opacity for all bubbles is set to 0.8

Most of the numerical properties in picasso.js are relative and defined as a value between 0 and 1, the primary reason for this is to ensure responsiveness as the chart is resized.

Example

components: [
  {
    type: "point",
    data: {
      extract: {
        field: "Area",
        props: {
          x: { field: "S" },
          y: { field: "City" },
        },
      },
    },
    settings: {
      x: {
        scale: { data: { field: "S" } },
      },
      y: {
        scale: { data: { extract: { field: "City" } } },
      },
      fill: {
        scale: {
          data: { extract: { field: "City" } },
          type: "color",
        },
        ref: "y",
      },
      opacity: 0.8,
      size: () => Math.random(),
      strokeWidth: 2,
      stroke: "#fff",
    },
  },
];

API Reference

For more details, see the API.

Data
Scales
Visual properties