observablehq / observablehq/plot
Automatically transform to thousands etc. for shorter tick labels.
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Description
For large powers of ten, tick labels are often truncated by default:
It’d be nice if we could detect this sort of powers-of-ten ticks and automatically applied a suitable scale transform, such as converting to billions (y: {transform: d => d / 1e9}):
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Research direction
The issue provides no file or test entry point. Start by tracing how tick labels and scale transforms are generated, then define when powers-of-ten ticks should trigger an automatic scale and verify that large values receive shorter, readable labels without changing the underlying data.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- d3, javascript
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100