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Colors in sequential scale?

See original GitHub issue

Please see the Vega output of the following VL spec:

{
  "layer": [
    {
      "mark": "rect",
      "encoding": {
        "color": {
          "type": "quantitative", "aggregate": "mean", "field": "precipitation",
          "scale": {
            "domain": [15, 2, 0.1, 0],
            "range": ["purple", "darkorange", "yellow", "white"]
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "mark": "text",
      "encoding": {
        "text": {"type": "quantitative", "aggregate": "mean", "field": "precipitation"}
      }
    }
  ],
  "data": {
    "url": "https://vega.github.io/vega-datasets/data/seattle-weather.csv",
    "format": {"type": "csv"}
  },
  "encoding": {
    "x": {"type": "ordinal", "field": "date", "timeUnit": "day"},
    "y": {"type": "ordinal", "field": "date", "timeUnit": "month"}
  },
  "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v2.3.0.json"
}

visualization 4

Notice in particular that Wednesdays in June have a value of 0.14, but the color is associated with the value 0 in the scale (or somewhere between 0 and 0.1 at best)

Originally from https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/issues/3631

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Created 5 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

kanitwcommented, Apr 21, 2018

Ok. In Thai, it’s “catch” first. lol

0reactions

domoritzcommented, Apr 21, 2018

I think it’s bigger fish to fry, not catch 😛

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