In this lecture we'll explore why d3 data joins (demos here) add flexibility to our code and see some of the neat ways we can smoothen out transitions. To do this, we'll make a bar chart using scaleBand.
The dataset for this page comes from the Bechdel Test Database where users categories movies based on whether they have (1) at least two characters who identify as women in it (2) who talk to each other (3) about something besides a man. The idea behind the test is to characterize gender representation and equity in films. Though it's called a "test", one might better think of it as a way to audit movies as a whole, as it's a very coarse measure for representation. You can see some more analyses and additional context in this FiveThirtyEight article. For our purposes, I've aggregated movie ratings along different decades of release. A genre is counted if more than 20 films have been rated in that category (whether pass or fail).