D3.js: Cutting-edge Data Visualization

Representing relationships with chord diagrams

Chord diagrams demonstrate the relationships among a group of entities. To demonstrate, we will use the example available at the following link:

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bl.ock (10.7): http://goo.gl/8mRDSg

The resulting diagram is the following:

The data in this example is a square matrix of data, with rows and columns representing hair color (black, blonde, brown, and red). The data represents a total sample of 100000 measurements, where each row demonstrates the total count of the other hair colors which a person of a given hair color prefers:

	Prefers
Has	Black	Blonde	Brown	Red	Total
Black	11975 ...