How to link two bar charts in altair?












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I'm having trouble with a fairly simple interaction because I don't understand the language of altair very much.



Say I have a dataframe containing the state, county and population.



I want to create one bar chart showing states and their populations and another showing counties and their populations.



Clicking on a state populates the next bar chart with county names, and their populations. Clicking away from any state in the first chart empties out the county chart again.



Simple master/detail or context/focus pair of charts.



Additonally, I'm not clear how to debug this either. Is there a way to print the selected state to the console?



Here is some data I pulled from wikipedia (unable to share actual work data):

State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947



When I click on the bar representing California in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino. When I click on New York in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Kings and Queens.










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  • Hello, could you share some data? Here is a link that could be useful altair-viz.github.io/gallery/…

    – FlorianGD
    Nov 21 '18 at 12:04











  • @FlorianGD added some test data. I saw the various interval selection examples but am not able to adapt them to code where a single click of a bar in Chart 1 changes chart 2.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 21 '18 at 15:36
















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I'm having trouble with a fairly simple interaction because I don't understand the language of altair very much.



Say I have a dataframe containing the state, county and population.



I want to create one bar chart showing states and their populations and another showing counties and their populations.



Clicking on a state populates the next bar chart with county names, and their populations. Clicking away from any state in the first chart empties out the county chart again.



Simple master/detail or context/focus pair of charts.



Additonally, I'm not clear how to debug this either. Is there a way to print the selected state to the console?



Here is some data I pulled from wikipedia (unable to share actual work data):

State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947



When I click on the bar representing California in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino. When I click on New York in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Kings and Queens.










share|improve this question

























  • Hello, could you share some data? Here is a link that could be useful altair-viz.github.io/gallery/…

    – FlorianGD
    Nov 21 '18 at 12:04











  • @FlorianGD added some test data. I saw the various interval selection examples but am not able to adapt them to code where a single click of a bar in Chart 1 changes chart 2.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 21 '18 at 15:36














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I'm having trouble with a fairly simple interaction because I don't understand the language of altair very much.



Say I have a dataframe containing the state, county and population.



I want to create one bar chart showing states and their populations and another showing counties and their populations.



Clicking on a state populates the next bar chart with county names, and their populations. Clicking away from any state in the first chart empties out the county chart again.



Simple master/detail or context/focus pair of charts.



Additonally, I'm not clear how to debug this either. Is there a way to print the selected state to the console?



Here is some data I pulled from wikipedia (unable to share actual work data):

State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947



When I click on the bar representing California in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino. When I click on New York in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Kings and Queens.










share|improve this question
















I'm having trouble with a fairly simple interaction because I don't understand the language of altair very much.



Say I have a dataframe containing the state, county and population.



I want to create one bar chart showing states and their populations and another showing counties and their populations.



Clicking on a state populates the next bar chart with county names, and their populations. Clicking away from any state in the first chart empties out the county chart again.



Simple master/detail or context/focus pair of charts.



Additonally, I'm not clear how to debug this either. Is there a way to print the selected state to the console?



Here is some data I pulled from wikipedia (unable to share actual work data):

State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947



When I click on the bar representing California in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino. When I click on New York in the first chart, the second chart should populate with Kings and Queens.







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  • Hello, could you share some data? Here is a link that could be useful altair-viz.github.io/gallery/…

    – FlorianGD
    Nov 21 '18 at 12:04











  • @FlorianGD added some test data. I saw the various interval selection examples but am not able to adapt them to code where a single click of a bar in Chart 1 changes chart 2.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 21 '18 at 15:36



















  • Hello, could you share some data? Here is a link that could be useful altair-viz.github.io/gallery/…

    – FlorianGD
    Nov 21 '18 at 12:04











  • @FlorianGD added some test data. I saw the various interval selection examples but am not able to adapt them to code where a single click of a bar in Chart 1 changes chart 2.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 21 '18 at 15:36

















Hello, could you share some data? Here is a link that could be useful altair-viz.github.io/gallery/…

– FlorianGD
Nov 21 '18 at 12:04





Hello, could you share some data? Here is a link that could be useful altair-viz.github.io/gallery/…

– FlorianGD
Nov 21 '18 at 12:04













@FlorianGD added some test data. I saw the various interval selection examples but am not able to adapt them to code where a single click of a bar in Chart 1 changes chart 2.

– Shahbaz
Nov 21 '18 at 15:36





@FlorianGD added some test data. I saw the various interval selection examples but am not able to adapt them to code where a single click of a bar in Chart 1 changes chart 2.

– Shahbaz
Nov 21 '18 at 15:36












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This does what you want I believe. The idea is to create a selection on a chart, and use this to filter the second one.





import altair as alt
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

states_str = """State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947
"""

states_df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(states_str))

state_selector = alt.selection_multi(fields=['State'])

chart_states = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('State:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).add_selection(state_selector)

chart_county = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('County:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).transform_filter(state_selector)

chart_states | chart_county


Chart when nothing is selected



enter image description here



Chart after clicking on California on the first chart.
enter image description here



Created on 2018-11-21 by the reprexpy package






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  • I hadn't thought of using selection_multi (instead of selection_single). I ended up building multi-level charts (think state, county, city). What an awesome tool and thanks for your hep.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 22 '18 at 2:01











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This does what you want I believe. The idea is to create a selection on a chart, and use this to filter the second one.





import altair as alt
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

states_str = """State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947
"""

states_df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(states_str))

state_selector = alt.selection_multi(fields=['State'])

chart_states = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('State:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).add_selection(state_selector)

chart_county = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('County:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).transform_filter(state_selector)

chart_states | chart_county


Chart when nothing is selected



enter image description here



Chart after clicking on California on the first chart.
enter image description here



Created on 2018-11-21 by the reprexpy package






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  • I hadn't thought of using selection_multi (instead of selection_single). I ended up building multi-level charts (think state, county, city). What an awesome tool and thanks for your hep.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 22 '18 at 2:01
















1














This does what you want I believe. The idea is to create a selection on a chart, and use this to filter the second one.





import altair as alt
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

states_str = """State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947
"""

states_df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(states_str))

state_selector = alt.selection_multi(fields=['State'])

chart_states = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('State:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).add_selection(state_selector)

chart_county = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('County:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).transform_filter(state_selector)

chart_states | chart_county


Chart when nothing is selected



enter image description here



Chart after clicking on California on the first chart.
enter image description here



Created on 2018-11-21 by the reprexpy package






share|improve this answer
























  • I hadn't thought of using selection_multi (instead of selection_single). I ended up building multi-level charts (think state, county, city). What an awesome tool and thanks for your hep.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 22 '18 at 2:01














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This does what you want I believe. The idea is to create a selection on a chart, and use this to filter the second one.





import altair as alt
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

states_str = """State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947
"""

states_df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(states_str))

state_selector = alt.selection_multi(fields=['State'])

chart_states = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('State:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).add_selection(state_selector)

chart_county = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('County:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).transform_filter(state_selector)

chart_states | chart_county


Chart when nothing is selected



enter image description here



Chart after clicking on California on the first chart.
enter image description here



Created on 2018-11-21 by the reprexpy package






share|improve this answer













This does what you want I believe. The idea is to create a selection on a chart, and use this to filter the second one.





import altair as alt
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO

states_str = """State,County,Land Area
California,Los Angeles, 10510
Illinois,Cook, 2448
Texas,Harris, 4412
Arizona,Maricopa, 23828
California,San Diego, 10895
California,Orange, 2048
Florida,Miami-Dade, 4915
New York,Kings, 183
Texas,Dallas, 2257
New York,Queens, 281
California,Riverside, 18665
California,San Bernardino, 51947
"""

states_df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(states_str))

state_selector = alt.selection_multi(fields=['State'])

chart_states = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('State:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).add_selection(state_selector)

chart_county = alt.Chart(states_df).mark_bar().encode(
x=alt.X('County:N'),
y=alt.Y('count():Q')
).transform_filter(state_selector)

chart_states | chart_county


Chart when nothing is selected



enter image description here



Chart after clicking on California on the first chart.
enter image description here



Created on 2018-11-21 by the reprexpy package







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  • I hadn't thought of using selection_multi (instead of selection_single). I ended up building multi-level charts (think state, county, city). What an awesome tool and thanks for your hep.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 22 '18 at 2:01



















  • I hadn't thought of using selection_multi (instead of selection_single). I ended up building multi-level charts (think state, county, city). What an awesome tool and thanks for your hep.

    – Shahbaz
    Nov 22 '18 at 2:01

















I hadn't thought of using selection_multi (instead of selection_single). I ended up building multi-level charts (think state, county, city). What an awesome tool and thanks for your hep.

– Shahbaz
Nov 22 '18 at 2:01





I hadn't thought of using selection_multi (instead of selection_single). I ended up building multi-level charts (think state, county, city). What an awesome tool and thanks for your hep.

– Shahbaz
Nov 22 '18 at 2:01


















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