Tutorial #2 G2 (The Grammar of Graphics) - Create Pie Chart

What Will I Learn?

• How to create pie chart using g2
• Example codes using g2

Requirements

• Knowledge of HTML
• Knowledge of JavaScript

Difficulty

• Intermediate

Tutorial Contents

• Introduction
• Import G2 js
• Create pie chart

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will create a simple pie chart that will display the sample number of utopian contributions.

Pie chart is a circular graph that represents a statistical data. This graph is divided into slices which illustrate the numerical proportion. The arc length of each slices is proportional to the number of quantity it represents. Using pie chart is a way of summarizing a set of categorical data or shows percentage distribution.

Import G2 js

To start, we have to import first the G2 library in our application. We can use a CDN or dowload/copy+paste the file into our local machine.

CDN: https://gw.alipayobjects.com/os/antv/assets/g2/3.0.5-beta.5/g2.min.js

Then, add a script tag in our application to import the G2 library.

<script src="https://gw.alipayobjects.com/os/antv/assets/g2/3.0.5-beta.5/g2.min.js"></script>

Create pie chart

So let's start creating our pie chart.

• First, we need to initialize the data in JSON format. We can use any data which will be displayed in our pie chart. For this tutorial, we will create a pie chart that will display the percentage of each Utopian contributions.

var data = [
        { contribution: 'Development', count: 78 },
        { contribution: 'Bug Hunting', count: 96 },
        { contribution: 'Graphics', count: 66 },
        { contribution: 'Analysis', count: 55 },
        { contribution: 'Visibility', count: 103 },
        { contribution: 'Documentation', count: 58 },
        { contribution: 'Tutorials', count: 121 },
        { contribution: 'Video Tutorials', count: 87 },
        { contribution: 'Copywriting', count: 52 },
        { contribution: 'Blog Post', count: 51   },
        { contribution: 'Suggestion', count: 125 },
 ];

• Then, initialize the G2 chart with the element or container where we want to display the chart and we can also set the height and the width.

var chart = new G2.Chart({
        container: 'canvas',
        height: 700,
        width: 850
 });

• Pass the JSON data to the G2 chart as the source data.

chart.source(data);

• Use coord to set the Cartesian coordinate that we will use. There are four types of coord: rect, polar, theta, and helix. For circular graphs we will use the theta coord type.

chart.coord('theta');

• Next, set the position of the interval that will determine what attribute of data we will use to illustrate the percentage of each slices. Instead of interval we will use intervalStack for circular graphs. And also we will set the color and label of each slices. For the color, we will just set what attribute of object that we need to emphasize.

chart.intervalStack().position('count').color('contribution')
        .label('contribution*count', {
          content(name, value) {
            return name + ':' + value;
          }
  });

For the label, we have to pass the attributes that we want to display and use the content function that will return the label as a string.

• Lastly, RENDER the pie chart.

chart.render();

Result:

Demo

Curriculum

• Tutorial #1 G2 (The Grammar of Graphics) - Create Bar Chart