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Published inOct 2013
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Nick Zhu
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Nick Zhu is a professional programmer and data engineer with more than a decade experience in software development, big data, and machine learning. Currently, he is one of the founders and CTO of Yroo.com - meta search engine for online shopping. He is also the creator of dc.js—a popular multidimensional charting library built on D3.
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Working with arrays


Most of our data is stored in arrays, and we spend a lot of our effort working with arrays to format and restructure data. This is why D3 provides a rich set of array-oriented utilities functions, making this task a lot easier. In this recipe, we will explore some of the most common and helpful utilities in this aspect.

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How to do it...

The following code example shows some of the most common and helpful array utility functions offered by the D3 library and their effects:

<script type="text/javascript">
    // Static html code were omitted due to space constraint

    var array = [3, 2, 11, 7, 6, 4, 10, 8, 15];

    d3.select("#min").text(d3.min(array));
    d3.select("#max").text(d3.max(array));
    d3.select("#extent").text(d3.extent(array));
    d3.select("#sum").text(d3.sum(array));
    d3.select(...
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Nick Zhu

Nick Zhu is a professional programmer and data engineer with more than a decade experience in software development, big data, and machine learning. Currently, he is one of the founders and CTO of Yroo.com - meta search engine for online shopping. He is also the creator of dc.js—a popular multidimensional charting library built on D3.
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