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<h1 id="css-slope-graphs">CSS Slope Graphs</h1>
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<p>2021-06-07</p>
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<p><em>I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web</em>. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let&#8217;s change that, shall we?</p>
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<h2 id="the-demo">The Demo</h2>
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<p>I&#8217;m basing this demo off the design patterns found in <a href="https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi">Edward Tufte&#8217;s visualization work</a>, specifically his slope graph designs:</p>
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<p><a href="https://codepen.io/bradleytaunt/pen/jOBzXMe">Live CodePen Example</a></p>
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<h2 id="the-html">The HTML</h2>
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<p>For this concept we will actually be building this graph out of <code>tables</code> - crazy, right? The greatest benefit of rendering all the data inside of a <code>table</code> element is the ability to easily support smaller screens and mobile devices. Larger viewports will get to see the pretty slope graph, while those below a certain threshold will view a simple table.</p>
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<p>(But more on that in the CSS section)</p>
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<pre><code>&#60;p&#62;Sales of the leading frozen pizza brands of the United States from 2011 to 2017 (in million US dollars) &#60;br&#62;&#60;em&#62;Source: Statisa 2018&#60;&#47;em&#62;&#60;&#47;p&#62;
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<p>As you can see, nothing too fancy is happpening here. Pay close attention to the <code>data-set</code> and <code>data-name</code> variables though - those will be important for the CSS portion of this design, mainly the rendering of the line elements.</p>
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<h2 id="the-css">The CSS</h2>
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<p>To avoid overwhelming your brain all-at-once, let&#8217;s break the CSS down into bite-sized chunks, starting with the base styling:</p>
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* {
box-sizing: border-box;
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width: 100%;
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<p>Pretty basic stuff.</p>
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<p>Now we need to design how our slope graph will look on larger screens &#47; desktops. For this instance, we will target these larger devices with a <code>min-width</code> media query of <code>800px</code>. The rest of the CSS might look a little confusing but I assure you it is quite simple.</p>
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<li><p>On larger devices we hide the first <code>thead tr th</code> element with <code>display: none</code></p></li>
<li><p>The first and second <code>td</code> elements inside each <code>tbody</code> row need to be set as <code>position: absolute</code> to avoid duplicate content</p></li>
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<li><p>Remember that <code>data-set</code> variable? We now use that for our <code>:before</code> pseudo element for <code>table tbody tr td:nth-of-type(1)</code></p></li>
<li><p>Remember that <code>data-name</code> variable? We now use that for our <code>:before</code> pseudo element for <code>table tbody tr td:nth-of-type(3)</code></p></li>
<li><p>After that, you can see the simple customization we include to render the angle &#47; position of the slope lines and the corresponding labels</p>
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<p>@media(min-width:800px) {
table {
display: block;
position: relative;
margin-bottom: 25rem;
}</p>
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<pre><code>table thead th {
border-bottom: 1px solid lightgrey;
font-size: 24px;
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width: 56%;
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<p>}</p></li>
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<p>All that&#8217;s left are some minor styles to make everything look nice on mobile:</p>
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p {
margin: 2rem 0;
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<h2 id="not-the-most-practical">Not the most practical</h2>
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<p>This slope graph concept is far from perfect for use in real-world situations. The fact that you need to manually render each point of data yourself makes this implementation quite annoying for more in-depth projects.</p>
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<p>But it was fun to mess around with and create, so who cares!</p>
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