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  15         <li><a href="#demo">Demo</a></li>
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  77       <h1>dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library</h1>
  78
  79       <p><a href="http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs">http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs</a></p>
  80       <p>See <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/dygraphs-users">mailing list</a>, <a href="http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs/downloads/">downloads</a>, <a href="tests/">gallery</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dygraphs/issues/">open issues</a></p>
  81
  82       <p>dygraphs is an open source JavaScript library that produces produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them.</p>
  83
  84       <h3 id="demo">A demo is worth a thousand words:</h3>
  85
  86       <p style="font-size:0.8em">(Mouse over to highlight individual values. Click and drag to zoom. Double-click to zoom back out. Change the number and hit enter to adjust the averaging period.)</p>
  87
  88       <div id="title" style="width:800px; margin: 1em;text-align:center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 125%;">Temperatures in New York vs. San Francisco</div>
  89
  90       <div id="demodiv" style="width:800px; height:320px;"></div>
  91       <script type="text/javascript">
  92         g = new Dygraph(
  93           document.getElementById("demodiv"),
  94           "ny-vs-sf.txt",
  95           {
  96             rollPeriod: 14,
  97             showRoller: true,
  98             customBars: true,
  99             yAxisLabelWidth: 30
 100           }
 101         );
 102       </script>
 103
 104       <h4>Some things to notice:</h4>
 105       <ul>
 106         <li>There's less seasonal temperature variation in SF than in NY.</li>
 107         <li>The difference is about 15&deg; F for SF vs. 50&deg; F for NY.</li>
 108         <li>The daily data (set rolling period to 1) is quite noisy and hides this conclusion.</li>
 109         <li>Using a 14-day moving average makes it clearer. A 100-day rolling period averages out nearly all the specifics from the data.</li>
 110         <li>There's a gap in the data for SF, when the weather station was down (zoom into October 2007 to see it).</li>
 111         <li>The bands around each point indicate average highs and lows.</li>
 112         <li>There is a <em>lot</em> of data in this chart: low, average and high for each city on each day of a three year period &asymp; 6000 data points in all.</li>
 113       </ul>
 114
 115       <p>dygraphs allows the user to explore the data and discover these facts.</p>
 116
 117       <p>For more demos, browse the dygraph <a href="tests/">tests</a> directory.</p>
 118
 119       <h3>Features</h3>
 120       <p>Some of the features of dygraphs:</p>
 121       <ul>
 122         <li>Plots time series without using an external server or Flash</li>
 123         <li>Works in Internet Explorer (using excanvas)</li>
 124         <li>Lightweight (57kb) and responsive</li>
 125         <li>Displays values on mouseover (this makes it easily discoverable)</li>
 126         <li>Supports error bands around data series</li>
 127         <li>Interactive zoom</li>
 128         <li>Displays Annotations on the chart</li>
 129         <li>Adjustable averaging period</li>
 130         <li>Can intelligently chart fractions</li>
 131         <li>Customizable click-through actions</li>
 132         <li>Compatible with the Google Visualization API</li>
 133         <li>Intelligent defaults make it easy to use</li>
 134       </ul>
 135
 136       <h2 id="usage">Usage</h2>
 137
 138       <p>To use dygraphs, include the <code><a href="http://github.com/danvk/dygraphs/downloads/">dygraph-combined.js</a></code> JavaScript file and instantiate a <code>Dygraph</code> object.</p>
 139
 140       <p>Here's a basic example to get things started:</p>
 141
 142       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 143         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 144           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 145           <code>
 146   <pre>
 147 &lt;html&gt;
 148 &lt;head&gt;
 149 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 150   src=&quot;dygraph-combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 151 &lt;/head&gt;
 152 &lt;body&gt;
 153 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 154 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 155   g = new Dygraph(
 156
 157     // containing div
 158     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv&quot;),
 159
 160     // CSV or path to a CSV file.
 161     &quot;Date,Temperature\n&quot; +
 162     &quot;2008-05-07,75\n&quot; +
 163     &quot;2008-05-08,70\n&quot; +
 164     &quot;2008-05-09,80\n&quot;
 165
 166   );
 167 &lt;/script&gt;
 168 &lt;/body&gt;
 169 &lt;/html&gt;
 170 </pre>
 171           </code>
 172         </div>
 173         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 174           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 175           <div id="graphdiv"></div>
 176           <script type="text/javascript">
 177             g = new Dygraph(
 178
 179               // containing div
 180               document.getElementById("graphdiv"),
 181
 182               // CSV or path to a CSV file.
 183               "Date,Temperature\n" +
 184               "2008-05-07,75\n" +
 185               "2008-05-08,70\n" +
 186               "2008-05-09,80\n"
 187             );
 188           </script>
 189         </div>
 190       </div>
 191
 192       <p style="clear:both">In order to keep this example self-contained, the second parameter is raw CSV data. The dygraphs library parses this data (including column headers), resizes its container to a reasonable default, calculates appropriate axis ranges and tick marks and draws the graph.</p>
 193
 194       <p>In most applications, it makes more sense to include a CSV file instead. If the second parameter to the constructor doesn't contain a newline, it will be interpreted as the path to a CSV file. The Dygraph will perform an XMLHttpRequest to retrieve this file and display the data when it becomes available. Make sure your CSV file is readable and serving from a place that understands XMLHttpRequest's! In particular, you cannot specify a CSV file using <code>"file:///"</code>. Here's an example: (data from <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KNUQ/2007/1/1/CustomHistory.html?dayend=31&amp;monthend=12&amp;yearend=2007&amp;req_city=NA&amp;req_state=NA&amp;req_statename=NA">Weather Underground</a>)</p>
 195
 196       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 197         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 198           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 199           <code>
 200 <pre>
 201 &lt;html&gt;
 202 &lt;head&gt;
 203 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 204   src=&quot;dygraph-combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 205 &lt;/head&gt;
 206 &lt;body&gt;
 207 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv2&quot;
 208   style=&quot;width:500px; height:300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 209 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 210   g2 = new Dygraph(
 211     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv2&quot;),
 212     &quot;temperatures.csv&quot;, // path to CSV file
 213     {}          // options
 214   );
 215 &lt;/script&gt;
 216 &lt;/body&gt;
 217 &lt;/html&gt;
 218 </pre>
 219           </code>
 220         </div>
 221         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 222           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 223           <div id="graphdiv2" style="width:500px; height:300px;"></div>
 224           <script type="text/javascript">
 225             g2 = new Dygraph(
 226               document.getElementById("graphdiv2"),
 227               "temperatures.csv",
 228               {}
 229             );
 230           </script>
 231         </div>
 232       </div>
 233
 234       <p style="clear:both;">The file used is <code><a href="temperatures.csv">temperatures.csv</a></code>.</p>
 235
 236       <p>There are a few things to note here:</p>
 237
 238       <ul>
 239         <li>The Dygraph sent off an XHR to get the temperatures.csv file.</li>
 240         <li>The labels were taken from the first line of <code>temperatures.csv</code>, which is <code>Date,High,Low</code>.</li>
 241         <li>The Dygraph automatically chose two different, easily-distinguishable colors for the two data series.</li>
 242         <li>The labels on the x-axis have switched from days to months. If you zoom in, they'll switch to weeks and then days.</li>
 243         <li>Some heuristics are used to determine a good vertical range for the data. The idea is to make all the data visible and have human-friendly values on the axis (i.e. 200 instead of 193.4). Generally this works well.</li>
 244         <li>The data is very spiky. A moving average would be easier to interpret.</li>
 245       </ul>
 246
 247       <p>This problem can be fixed by specifying the appropriate options in the "additional options" parameter to the Dygraph constructor. To set the number of days for a moving average, use the <code>rollPeriod</code> option. Here's how it's done:</p>
 248
 249       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 250         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 251           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 252           <code>
 253 <pre>
 254 &lt;html&gt;
 255 &lt;head&gt;
 256 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 257   src=&quot;dygraph-combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 258 &lt;/head&gt;
 259 &lt;body&gt;
 260 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv3&quot;
 261   style=&quot;width:500px; height:300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 262 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 263   g3 = new Dygraph(
 264     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv3&quot;),
 265     &quot;temperatures.csv&quot;,
 266     {
 267       rollPeriod: 7,
 268       showRoller: true
 269     }
 270   );
 271 &lt;/script&gt;
 272 &lt;/body&gt;
 273 &lt;/html&gt;
 274 </pre>
 275           </code>
 276         </div>
 277         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 278           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 279           <div id="graphdiv3" style="width:500px; height:300px;"></div>
 280           <script type="text/javascript">
 281             g3 = new Dygraph(
 282               document.getElementById("graphdiv3"),
 283               "temperatures.csv",
 284               {
 285                 rollPeriod: 7,
 286                 showRoller: true
 287               }
 288             );
 289           </script>
 290         </div>
 291       </div>
 292
 293       <p style="clear:both;">A rolling average can be set using the text box in the lower left-hand corner of the graph (the showRoller attribute is what makes this appear). Also note that we've explicitly set the size of the chart div.</p>
 294
 295       <h2>Error Bars</h2>
 296
 297       <p>Another significant feature of the dygraphs library is the ability to display error bars around data series. One standard deviation must be specified for each data point. A <em>&plusmn;n</em> sigma band will be drawn around the data series at that point. If a moving average is being displayed, dygraphs will compute the standard deviation of the average at each point. I.E. <em>&sigma; = sqrt( (&sigma;<sub>1<sup>2</sup></sub> + &sigma;<sub>2<sup>2</sup></sub> + ... + &sigma;<sub>n<sup>2</sup></sub>) / n )</em></p>
 298
 299       <p>Here's a demonstration. There are two data series. One is <code>N(100,10)</code> with a standard deviation of 10 specified at each point. The other is <code>N(80,20)</code> with a standard deviation of 20 specified at each point. The CSV file was generated using Octave and can be viewed at <a href="twonormals.csv">twonormals.csv</a>.</p>
 300
 301       <div class="example" style="clear:both;">
 302         <div class="codeblock" style="float:left;width:400px;">
 303           <h3 style="text-align:center">HTML</h3>
 304           <code>
 305 <pre>
 306 &lt;html&gt;
 307 &lt;head&gt;
 308 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;
 309   src=&quot;combined.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
 310 &lt;/head&gt;
 311 &lt;body&gt;
 312 &lt;div id=&quot;graphdiv4&quot;
 313   style=&quot;width:600px; height:300px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
 314 &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
 315   g4 = new Dygraph(
 316     document.getElementById(&quot;graphdiv4&quot;),
 317     &quot;twonormals.csv&quot;,
 318     {
 319       rollPeriod: 7,
 320       showRoller: true,
 321       errorBars: true,
 322       valueRange: [50,125]
 323     }
 324   );
 325 &lt;/script&gt;
 326 &lt;/body&gt;
 327 &lt;/html&gt;
 328 </pre>
 329           </code>
 330         </div>
 331         <div class="codeoutput" style="float:left;">
 332           <h3 style="text-align:center">OUTPUT</h3>
 333           <div id="graphdiv4" style="width:600px; height:300px;"></div>
 334           <script type="text/javascript">
 335             g4 = new Dygraph(
 336               document.getElementById("graphdiv4"),
 337               "twonormals.csv",
 338               {
 339                 rollPeriod: 7,
 340                 showRoller: true,
 341                 errorBars: true,
 342                 valueRange: [50,125]
 343               }
 344             );
 345           </script>
 346         </div>
 347       </div>
 348
 349       <p style="clear:both;">Things to note here:</p>
 350
 351       <ul>
 352         <li>The <strong>errorBars</strong> option affects both the interpretation of the CSV file and the display of the graph. When <strong>errorBars</strong> is set to true, each line is interpreted as <em>YYYYMMDD</em>, <em>A</em>, <em>sigma_A</em>, <em>B</em>, <em>sigma_B</em>, &hellip;</li>
 353         <li>The first line of the CSV file doesn't mention the error columns. In this case, it's just "Date,Series1,Series2".</li>
 354         <li>The averaging visibly affects the error bars. This is most clear if you crank up the rolling period to something like 100 days. For the earliest dates, there won't be 100 data points to average so the signal will be noisier. The error bars get smaller like sqrt(N) going forward in time until there's a full 100 points to average.</li>
 355         <li>The error bars are partially transparent. This can be seen when they overlap one another.</li>
 356       </ul>
 357
 358       <h2 id="ie">Internet Explorer Compatibility</h2>
 359
 360       <p>The dygraphs library relies heavily on HTML's <code>&lt;canvas&gt;</code> tag, which Microsoft Internet Explorer does not support. Fortunately, some clever engineers created the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/explorercanvas/">excanvas</a> library, which implements the <code>&lt;canvas&gt;</code> tag in IE using VML.</p>
 361
 362       <p>You can add IE support to any page using dygraphs by including the following in your page:</p>
 363
 364 <pre>
 365 &lt;head&gt;
 366   &lt;!--[if IE]&gt;&lt;script src="excanvas.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;
 367 &lt;/head&gt;
 368 </pre>
 369
 370     <p>This works quite well in practice. Charts are responsive, even under VML emulation.</p>
 371
 372     <p>One common gotcha to look out for: make sure you don't have any trailing commas in parameter lists, e.g.</p>
 373
 374 <pre>
 375 new Dygraph(el, data, {
 376   showRoller: true,  // note trailing comma
 377 })</pre>
 378
 379     <p>Most browsers will ignore the trailing comma, but it will break under IE.</p>
 380
 381     <h2 id="gviz">GViz Data</h2>
 382
 383     <p>The <a
 384       href="http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/index.html">Google
 385       Visualization API</a> provides a standard interface for describing data.
 386     Once you've specified your data using this API, you can plug in any
 387     GViz-compatible visualization. dygraphs is such a visualization. In
 388     particular, it can be used as a drop-in replacement for the
 389     AnnotatedTimeline visualization used on Google Finance and other sites. To
 390     see how this works, check out the <a href="tests/annotation-gviz.html">gviz
 391       annotation demo.</a></p>
 392
 393     <p>For a simple demonstration of how to use dygraphs a GViz visualization, see <a href="http://danvk.org/dygraphs/tests/gviz.html">http://danvk.org/dygraphs/tests/gviz.html</a>. dygraphs can also be used as a GViz gadget. This allows it to be embedded inside of a Google Spreadsheet. For a demonstration of this, see <a   href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Anx1yCqeL8YUdDR1c3pPREhraGhkWmdhaURjOXRncXc&amp;hl=en">this spreadsheet</a>. The URL for the gadget is <code><a href="http://danvk.org/dygraphs/gadget.xml">http://danvk.org/dygraphs/gadget.xml</a></code>.</p>
 394
 395     <p>Here's an example of a published gviz gadget using dygraphs:</p>
 396
 397     <script src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/gpub?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkb8jbn8l90ocl9n4b14jrcvp61ceqis5.spreadsheets.gmodules.com%2Fgadgets%2Fifr%3Fup__table_query_url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fspreadsheets.google.com%252Ftq%253Frange%253DA1%25253AC31%2526headers%253D-1%2526key%253D0Anx1yCqeL8YUdDR1c3pPREhraGhkWmdhaURjOXRncXc%2526gid%253D0%2526pub%253D1%26up__table_query_refresh_interval%3D300%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdanvk.org%252Fdygraphs%252Fgadget.xml%253Fnocache&height=215&width=530"></script>
 398
 399     <h2 id="baseball">Charting Fractions</h2>
 400
 401     <p>Situations often arise where you want to plot fractions, e.g. the fraction of respondents in a poll who said they'd vote for candidate X or the number of hits divided by at bats (baseball's batting average). Fractions require special treatment for two main reasons:</p>
 402
 403     <ul>
 404       <li>The average of <code>a1/b1</code> and <code>a2/b2</code> is <code>(a1+a2)/(b1+b2)</code>, not <code>(a1/b1 + a2/b2)/2</code>.</li>
 405       <li>The normal approximation is not always applicable and more sophisticated confidence intervals (e.g. the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_interval">Wilson confidence interval</a>) must be employed to avoid ratios that exceed 100% or go below 0%.</li>
 406     </ul>
 407
 408     <p>Fortunately, dygraphs handles both of these for you! Here's a chart and the command that generated it:</p>
 409
 410     <div style="width:750px; text-align:center; font-weight: bold; font-size: 125%;">Batting Average for Ichiro Suzuki vs. Mariners (2004)</div>
 411     <div id="baseballdiv" style="width:750px; height:300px;"></div>
 412     <script type="text/javascript">
 413       new Dygraph(
 414         document.getElementById("baseballdiv"),
 415         "suzuki-mariners.txt",
 416         {
 417           fractions: true,
 418           errorBars: true,
 419           showRoller: true,
 420           rollPeriod: 15
 421         }
 422       );
 423     </script>
 424
 425     <p>Command:</p>
 426 <pre>
 427   new Dygraph(
 428     document.getElementById(&quot;baseballdiv&quot;),
 429     &quot;suzuki-mariners.txt&quot;,
 430     {
 431       fractions: true,
 432       errorBars: true,
 433       showRoller: true,
 434       rollPeriod: 15
 435     }
 436   );
 437 </pre>
 438
 439     <p>The <code>fractions</code> option indicates that the values in each column should be parsed as fractions (e.g. "1/2" instead of "0.5"). The <code>errorBars</code> option indicates that we'd like to see a confidence interval around each data point. By default, when <code>fractions</code> is set, you get a Wilson confidence interval. If you look carefully at the chart, you can see that the error bars are asymmetric.</p>
 440
 441     <p>A couple things to notice about this chart:</p>
 442
 443     <ul>
 444       <li>The error bars for Ichiro's batting average are larger than for the Mariners', since he has far fewer at bats than his team.</li>
 445       <li>dygraphs makes it easy to see "batting average over the last 30 games". This is ordinarily quite difficult to compute. It makes it clear where the "hot" and "cold" part of Suzuki's season were.</li>
 446       <li>If you set the averaging period to something large, like 200, you'll see the team's and player's batting average through that game. The final number is the overall batting average for the season.</li>
 447       <li>Where the error bars do not overlap, we can say with 95% confidence that the series differ. There is a better than 95% chance that Ichiro was a better hitter than his team as a whole in 2004, the year he won the batting title.</li>
 448     </ul>
 449
 450     <h2 id="stock">One last demo</h2>
 451
 452     <p>This chart shows monthly closes of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, both in nominal and real (i.e. adjusted for inflation) dollars. The shaded areas show its monthly high and low. CPI values with a base from 1982-84 are used to adjust for inflation.</p>
 453
 454     <div id="dow_chart" style="width:900px; height:350px;"></div>
 455     <p><b>Display: </b>
 456     <input type=checkbox id=0 onClick="stockchange(this)" checked>
 457     <label for="0"> Nominal</label>
 458     <input type=checkbox id=1 onClick="stockchange(this)" checked>
 459     <label for="1"> Real</label>
 460     <input type=checkbox id=ann onClick="annotationschange(this)" checked>
 461     <label for="ann"> Annotations</label>
 462     </p>
 463
 464     <script type="text/javascript">
 465       var stock_annotations = [
 466         {
 467           series: "Real",
 468           x: "1929-08-15",
 469           shortText: "A",
 470           text: "1929 Stock Market Peak"
 471         },
 472         {
 473           series: "Nominal",
 474           x: "1987-08-15",
 475           shortText: "B",
 476           text: "1987 Crash"
 477         },
 478         {
 479           series: "Nominal",
 480           x: "1999-12-15",
 481           shortText: "C",
 482           text: "1999 (.com) Peak"
 483         },
 484         {
 485           series: "Nominal",
 486           x: "2007-10-15",
 487           shortText: "D",
 488           text: "All-Time Market Peak"
 489         }
 490       ];
 491
 492     // From http://www.econstats.com/eqty/eq_d_mi_3.csv
 493       stockchart = new Dygraph(
 494         document.getElementById('dow_chart'),
 495         "dow.txt",
 496         {
 497           showRoller: true,
 498           customBars: true,
 499           labelsKMB: true,
 500           drawCallback: function(g, is_initial) {
 501             if (!is_initial) return;
 502             g.setAnnotations( stock_annotations );
 503           }
 504         }
 505       );
 506
 507       function stockchange(el) {
 508         stockchart.setVisibility(el.id, el.checked);
 509       }
 510
 511       function annotationschange(el) {
 512         if (el.checked) {
 513           stockchart.setAnnotations(stock_annotations);
 514         } else {
 515           stockchart.setAnnotations([]);
 516         }
 517       }
 518     </script>
 519 <!--
 520
 521 Here is a script to regenerate the Dow Jones plot:
 522
 523 # Get unadjusted DJIA data in a nice format:
 524 curl -O http://www.econstats.com/eqty/eq_d_mi_3.csv
 525 sed '1,17d' eq_d_mi_3.csv | cut -d, -f1,6 | perl -pe 's/(\d{4}-\d\d)-\d\d/$1/g' | perl -pe 's/, */\t/' | grep -v 'na' | perl -ne 'chomp; ($m,$v) = split/\t/; $close{$m} = $v; if ($low{$m} == 0 || $v < $low{$m}) { $low{$m}=$v } if ($v > $high{$m}) { $high{$m} = $v } END { for $x(sort keys %close) { print "$x\t$low{$x}\t$close{$x}\t$high{$x}\n" } } ' > monthly-djia.tsv
 526
 527 # Fetch and format the CPI data:
 528 curl 'http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=CUUR0000SA0&years_option=all_years&periods_option=all_periods&output_type=column&output_format=text&delimiter=comma' > cpi-u.txt
 529 sed '1,/Series Id,Year,/d' cpi-u.txt | sed '/^$/,$d' | cut -d, -f2,3,4 | perl -ne 'print if /,M(0[0-9]|1[012]),/' | perl -pe 's/(\d{4}),M(\d{2}),/$1-$2\t/g' > cpi-u.tsv
 530
 531 # Merge:
 532 join -t'     ' cpi-u.tsv monthly-djia.tsv > annotated-djia.tsv
 533 perl -ne 'BEGIN{print "Month,Nominal,Real\n"} chomp; ($m,$cpi,$low,$close,$high) = split /\t/; $cpi /= 100.0; print "$m-15,$low;$close;$high,",($low/$cpi),";",($close/$cpi),";",($high/$cpi),"\n"' annotated-djia.tsv > dow.txt
 534
 535 -->
 536
 537     <h2 id="options">Other Options</h2>
 538
 539     <p>These are the options that can be passed in through the optional third parameter of the Dygraph constructor. Under each option is a set of links to tests which demonstrate its use. While we attempt to keep this list up-to-date, a more complete list can be found in the <code>Dygraph.DEFAULT_ATTRS</code> map in <code>dygraph.js</code> and the <code>this.options</code> map in <code>dygraph-canvas.js</code>.</p>
 540
 541     <table class="thinborder" width="900">
 542       <thead>
 543         <tr>
 544           <th width="150">Name</th>
 545           <th width="200">Values</th>
 546           <th width="150">Default</th>
 547           <th>Description</th>
 548         </tr>
 549       </thead>
 550       <tbody>
 551         <tr>
 552           <td><strong>includeZero</strong></td>
 553           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 554           <td><code>false</code></td>
 555         <td>Usually, dygraphs will use the range of the data plus some padding to set the range of the y-axis. If this option is set, the y-axis will always include zero, typically as the lowest value. This can be used to avoid exaggerating the variance in the data.
 556         <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/no-range.html">no-range</a> <a href="tests/numeric-gviz.html">numeric-gviz</a> <a href="tests/small-range-zero.html">small-range-zero</a> </div>
 557           </td>
 558         </tr>
 559         <tr>
 560           <td><strong>rollPeriod</strong></td>
 561           <td><code>integer &gt;= 1</code></td>
 562           <td><code>1</code></td>
 563           <td>Number of days over which to average data. Discussed extensively above.
 564         <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/demo.html">demo</a> <a href="tests/two-series.html">two-series</a> <a href="tests/noise.html">noise</a> </div>
 565         </td>
 566         </tr>
 567         <tr>
 568           <td><strong>showRoller</strong></td>
 569           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 570           <td><code>false</code></td>
 571           <td>If the rolling average period text box should be shown.
 572           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/callback.html">callback</a> <a href="tests/crosshair.html">crosshair</a> <a href="tests/fractions.html">fractions</a> <a href="tests/isolated-points.html">isolated-points</a> <a href="tests/numeric-gviz.html">numeric-gviz</a> <a href="tests/underlay-callback.html">underlay-callback</a> <a href="tests/highlighted-region.html">highlighted-region</a></div>
 573           </td>
 574         </tr>
 575         <tr>
 576           <td><strong>colors</strong></td>
 577           <td><code>['red', '#00FF00']</code></td>
 578           <td><code></code></td>
 579           <td>List of colors for the data series. These can be of the form "#AABBCC" or "rgb(255,100,200)" or "yellow", etc. If not specified, equally-spaced points around a color wheel are used.
 580           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/color-visibility.html">color-visibility</a> <a href="tests/demo.html">demo</a> </div>
 581           </td>
 582         </tr>
 583         <tr>
 584           <td><strong>fillGraph</strong></td>
 585           <td><code>boolean<br/></code></td>
 586           <td><code>false</code></td>
 587           <td>Should the area underneath the graph be filled? This option is not
 588           compatible with error bars.
 589           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/fillGraph.html">fillGraph</a> </div>
 590           </td>
 591         </tr>
 592         <tr>
 593           <td><strong>visibility</strong></td>
 594           <td><code>Array of booleans<br/></code></td>
 595           <td><code>[true, true, ...]</code></td>
 596           <td>Which series should initially be visible? Once the Dygraph has
 597           been constructed, you can access and modify the visibility of each
 598           series using the <code>visibility</code> and
 599           <code>setVisibility</code> methods.
 600           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/visibility.html">visibility</a> <a href="tests/color-visibility.html">color-visibility</a> </div>
 601           </td>
 602         </tr>
 603         <tr>
 604           <td><strong>colorSaturation</strong></td>
 605           <td><code>0.0 - 1.0</code></td>
 606           <td><code>1.0</code></td>
 607           <td>If <strong>colors</strong> is not specified, saturation of the automatically-generated data series colors.
 608           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 609           </td>
 610         </tr>
 611         <tr>
 612           <td><strong>colorValue</strong></td>
 613           <td><code>float (0.0 &mdash; 1.0)</code></td>
 614           <td><code>1.0</code></td>
 615           <td>If colors is not specified, value of the data series colors, as in hue/saturation/value. (0.0-1.0, default 0.5)
 616           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 617           </td>
 618         </tr>
 619         <tr>
 620           <td><strong>clickCallback</strong></td>
 621           <td><code>function(e, date){<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;alert(date);<br>}</code></td>
 622           <td><code>null</code></td>
 623           <td>A function to call when a data point is clicked. The function should take two arguments, the event object for the click and the date that was clicked. (default null)
 624           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/callback.html">callback</a> </div>
 625           </td>
 626         </tr>
 627         <tr>
 628           <td><strong>zoomCallback</strong></td>
 629           <td><code>function(minDate,<br/>maxDate,<br/>yRanges){}</code></td>
 630           <td><code>null</code></td>
 631           <td>A function to call when the zoom window is changed (either by zooming in or out). minDate and maxDate are milliseconds since epoch. yRanges is an array of [bottom, top] pairs, one for each y-axis.
 632           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/callback.html">callback</a> <a href="tests/zoom.html">zoom</a></div>
 633           </td>
 634         </tr>
 635         <tr>
 636           <td><strong>strokeWidth</strong></td>
 637           <td><code>integer</code></td>
 638           <td><code>1</code></td>
 639           <td>Width of the data lines. This can be used to increase the contrast or some graphs.
 640           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 641           </td>
 642         </tr>
 643         <tr>
 644           <td><strong>dateWindow</strong></td>
 645           <td><code>[<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;Date.parse('2006-01-01'),<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;(new Date()).valueOf()<br>]</code></td>
 646           <td rowspan="2"><code>Full range of the<br/> input is shown</code></td>
 647           <td>Initially zoom in on a section of the graph. Is of the form [earliest, latest], where earliest/latest are milliseconds since epoch.
 648           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/dateWindow.html">dateWindow</a> <a href="tests/link-interaction.html">link-interaction</a> </div>
 649           </td>
 650         </tr>
 651         <tr>
 652           <td><strong>valueRange</strong></td>
 653           <td><code>[10, 110]</code></td>
 654           <td>Explicitly set the vertical range of the graph to [low, high].
 655           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 656           </td>
 657         </tr>
 658         <tr>
 659           <td><strong>labelsSeparateLines</strong></td>
 660           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 661           <td><code>false</code></td>
 662           <td>Put <code>&lt;br/&gt;</code> between lines in the label string. Often used in conjunction with <strong>labelsDiv</strong>.
 663           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/customLabel.html">customLabel</a> <a href="tests/demo.html">demo</a> </div>
 664           </td>
 665         </tr>
 666         <tr>
 667           <td><strong>labelsDiv</strong></td>
 668           <td><code style="font-size: small">document.getElementById('foo')</code><br/>or<br/><code>'foo'</code></td>
 669           <td><code>null</code></td>
 670           <td style="vertical-align:top">Show data labels in an external div, rather than on the graph.  This value can either be a div element or a div id.
 671           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/label-div.html">label-div</a> </div>
 672           </td>
 673         </tr>
 674         <tr>
 675           <td><strong>labelsShowZeroValues</strong></td>
 676           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 677           <td><code>true</code></td>
 678           <td>Show zero value labels in the labelsDiv.
 679           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/label-div.html">label-div</a> </div>
 680           </td>
 681         </tr>
 682         <tr>
 683           <td><strong>labelsKMB</strong></td>
 684           <td><code>true</code></td>
 685           <td><code>false</code></td>
 686           <td>Show K/M/B for thousands/millions/billions on y-axis.
 687           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/demo.html">demo</a> <a href="tests/labelsKMB.html">labelsKMB</a> <a href="tests/no-range.html">no-range</a> </div>
 688           </td>
 689         </tr>
 690         <tr>
 691           <td><strong>labelsKMG2</strong></td>
 692           <td><code>true</code></td>
 693           <td><code>false</code></td>
 694           <td>Show k/M/G for kilo/Mega/Giga on y-axis. This is different than
 695           <code>labelsKMB</code> in that it uses base 2, not 10.
 696           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/labelsKMB.html">labelsKMB</a> </div>
 697           </td>
 698         </tr>
 699         <tr>
 700           <td><strong>labelsDivWidth</strong></td>
 701           <td><code>250</code></td>
 702           <td><code></code></td>
 703           <td>Width (in pixels) of the div which shows information on the currently-highlighted points.
 704           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/customLabel.html">customLabel</a> </div>
 705           </td>
 706         </tr>
 707         <tr>
 708           <td><strong>labelsDivStyles</strong></td>
 709           <td><code>{}</code></td>
 710           <td><code>null</code></td>
 711           <td>Additional styles to apply to the currently-highlighted points div. For example, { 'font-weight': 'bold' } will make the labels bold.
 712           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/border.html">border</a> <a href="tests/customLabel.html">customLabel</a> </div>
 713           </td>
 714         </tr>
 715         <tr>
 716           <td><strong>highlightCircleSize</strong></td>
 717           <td><code>integer</code></td>
 718           <td><code>3</code></td>
 719           <td>The size in pixels of the dot drawn over highlighted points.
 720           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/grid_dot.html">grid_dot</a> </div>
 721           </td>
 722         </tr>
 723         <tr>
 724           <td><strong>drawPoints</strong></td>
 725           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 726           <td><code>false</code></td>
 727           <td>Draw a small dot at each point, in addition to a line going through the point. This makes the individual data points easier to see, but can increase visual clutter in the chart.
 728           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/draw-points.html">draw-points</a> </div>
 729           </td>
 730         </tr>
 731         <tr>
 732           <td><strong>pointSize</strong></td>
 733           <td><code>integer</code></td>
 734           <td><code>1</code></td>
 735           <td>The size of the dot to draw on each point in pixels (see drawPoints). A dot is always drawn when a point is "isolated", i.e. there is a missing point on either side of it. This also controls the size of those dots.
 736           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 737           </td>
 738         </tr>
 739         <tr>
 740           <td><strong>pixelsPerXLabel</strong></td>
 741           <td rowspan="2"><code>integer</code></td>
 742           <td><code>60</code></td>
 743           <td rowspan="2">Number of pixels to require between each x- and y-label. Larger values will yield a sparser axis with fewer ticks.
 744           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/spacing.html">spacing</a> </div>
 745           </td>
 746         </tr>
 747         <tr>
 748           <td><strong>pixelsPerYLabel</strong></td>
 749           <td><code>30</code></td>
 750         </tr>
 751         <tr>
 752           <td><strong>xAxisLabelWidth</strong></td>
 753           <td rowspan="2"><code>integer</code></td>
 754           <td><code></code></td>
 755           <td rowspan="2">Width (in pixels) of the x- and y-axis labels.
 756           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/customLabel.html">customLabel</a> </div>
 757           </td>
 758         </tr>
 759         <tr>
 760           <td><strong>yAxisLabelWidth</strong></td>
 761           <td><code></code></td>
 762         </tr>
 763         <tr>
 764           <td><strong>axisLabelFontSize</strong></td>
 765           <td><code>integer</code></td>
 766           <td><code>14</code></td>
 767           <td>Size of the font (in pixels) to use in the axis labels, both x- and y-axis.
 768           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 769           </td>
 770         </tr>
 771         <tr>
 772           <td><strong>xAxisLabelFormatter</strong></td>
 773           <td><code>function(date, granularity)</code></td>
 774           <td><code>Dygraph.dateAxisFormatter</code></td>
 775           <td>Function to call to format values along the x axis.
 776             <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/x-axis-formatter.html">xAxisLabelFormatter</a></div>
 777           </td>
 778         </tr>
 779         <tr>
 780           <td><strong>yAxisLabelFormatter</strong></td>
 781           <td><code>function(x)</code></td>
 782           <td><code>yValueFormatter</code></td>
 783           <td>
 784             Function used to format values along the Y axis. By default it uses the same as the <code>yValueFormatter</code> unless specified.
 785             <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/y-axis-formatter.html">yAxisLabelFormatter</a></div>
 786           </td>
 787         </tr>
 788         <tr>
 789           <td><strong>rightGap</strong></td>
 790           <td><code>integer</code></td>
 791           <td><code></code></td>
 792           <td>Number of pixels to leave blank at the right edge of the Dygraph. This makes it easier to highlight the right-most data point.
 793           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 794           </td>
 795         </tr>
 796         <tr>
 797           <td><strong>errorBars</strong></td>
 798           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 799           <td><code>false</code></td>
 800           <td>Does the data contain standard deviations? Setting this to true alters the input format (see above).
 801           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/noise.html">noise</a> <a href="tests/customLabel.html">customLabel</a> <a href="tests/draw-points.html">draw-points</a> <a href="tests/fillGraph.html">fillGraph</a> <a href="tests/fractions.html">fractions</a> </div>
 802           </td>
 803         </tr>
 804         <tr>
 805           <td><strong>sigma</strong></td>
 806           <td><code>integer</code></td>
 807           <td><code></code></td>
 808           <td>When errorBars is set, shade this many standard deviations above/below each point.
 809           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 810           </td>
 811         </tr>
 812         <tr>
 813           <td><strong>fractions</strong></td>
 814           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 815           <td><code>false</code></td>
 816           <td>When set, attempt to parse each cell in the CSV file as "a/b", where a and b are integers. The ratio will be plotted. This allows computation of Wilson confidence intervals (see below).
 817           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/fractions.html">fractions</a> </div>
 818           </td>
 819         </tr>
 820         <tr>
 821           <td><strong>wilsonInterval</strong></td>
 822           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 823           <td><code>true</code></td>
 824           <td>Use in conjunction with the "fractions" option. Instead of plotting +/- N standard deviations, dygraphs will compute a Wilson confidence interval and plot that. This has more reasonable behavior for ratios close to 0 or 1.
 825           <div class="tests">Tests: <font color=red>none</font></div>
 826           </td>
 827         </tr>
 828         <tr>
 829           <td><strong>customBars</strong></td>
 830           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 831           <td><code>false</code></td>
 832           <td>When set, parse each CSV cell as "low;middle;high". Error bars will be drawn for each point between low and high, with the series itself going through middle.
 833           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/custom-bars.html">custom-bars</a> <a href="tests/zero-series.html">zero-series</a> </div>
 834           </td>
 835         </tr>
 836
 837         <tr>
 838           <td><strong>drawCallback</strong></td>
 839           <td><code>function(dygraph, is_initial)</code></td>
 840           <td><code>null</code></td>
 841           <td>When set, this callback gets called every time the dygraph is drawn. This includes the initial draw, after zooming and repeatedly while panning. The first parameter is the dygraph being drawn. The second is a boolean value indicating whether this is the initial draw.
 842           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/callback.html">callback</a> <a href="tests/synchronize.html">synchronize</a> </div>
 843           </td>
 844         </tr>
 845
 846         <tr>
 847           <td><strong>gridLineColor</strong></td>
 848           <td><code>red, blue</code></td>
 849           <td><code>rgb(128,128,128)</code></td>
 850           <td>The color of the gridlines.
 851           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/grid_dot.html">grid_dot</a> </div>
 852           </td>
 853         </tr>
 854
 855         <tr>
 856           <td><strong>highlightCallback</strong></td>
 857           <td><code>function(event, x, points,row)</code></td>
 858           <td><code>null</code></td>
 859           <td>When set, this callback gets called every time a new point is highlighted. The parameters are the JavaScript mousemove event, the x-coordinate of the highlighted points and an array of highlighted points: <code>[ {name: 'series', yval: y-value}, &hellip; ]</code>
 860           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/callback.html">callback</a> <a href="tests/crosshair.html">crosshair</a> </div>
 861           </td>
 862         </tr>
 863
 864         <tr>
 865           <td><strong>unhighlightCallback</strong></td>
 866           <td><code>function(event)</code></td>
 867           <td><code>null</code></td>
 868           <td>When set, this callback gets called every time the user stops highlighting any point by mousing out of the graph.  The parameter is the mouseout event.
 869             <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/callback.html">callback</a> <a href="tests/crosshair.html">crosshair</a> </div>
 870           </td>
 871         </tr>
 872
 873         <tr>
 874           <td><strong>underlayCallback</strong></td>
 875           <td><code>function(canvas, area, dygraph)</code></td>
 876           <td><code>null</code></td>
 877           <td>When set, this callback gets called before the chart is drawn. It
 878             allows you to draw underneath the chart. See the tests for more
 879             details on how to use this.
 880             <div class="tests">Tests:
 881               <a href="tests/underlay-callback.html">underlay-callback</a>
 882               <a href="tests/highlighted-region.html">highlighted-region</a>
 883             </div>
 884           </td>
 885         </tr>
 886
 887         <tr>
 888           <td><strong>strokeWidth</strong></td>
 889           <td><code>0.5, 2.0</code></td>
 890           <td><code>1.0</code></td>
 891           <td>The width of the lines connecting data points.
 892           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/grid_dot.html">grid_dot</a> </div>
 893           </td>
 894         </tr>
 895
 896         <tr>
 897           <td><strong>width</strong></td>
 898           <td rowspan="2"><code>integer</code></td>
 899           <td><code>480</code></td>
 900           <td rowspan="2">Width/Height (in pixels) of the chart. If the container div has been explicitly sized, these attributes will be ignored.
 901           <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/demo.html">demo</a> <a href="tests/link-interaction.html">link-interaction</a> <a href="tests/no-range.html">no-range</a> </div>
 902           </td>
 903         </tr>
 904         <tr>
 905           <td><strong>height</strong></td>
 906           <td><code>320</code></td>
 907         </tr>
 908
 909         <tr>
 910           <td><strong>stepPlot</strong></td>
 911           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 912           <td><code>false</code></td>
 913           <td>
 914             When set, display the graph as a step plot instead of a line plot.
 915             <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/steps.html">steps</a></div>
 916           </td>
 917         </tr>
 918
 919         <tr>
 920           <td><strong>xValueFormatter</strong></td>
 921           <td><code>function(x)</code></td>
 922           <td></td>
 923           <td>
 924             Function to provide a custom display format the X value for mouseover.
 925           </td>
 926         </tr>
 927
 928         <tr>
 929           <td><strong>yValueFormatter</strong></td>
 930           <td><code>function(x)</code></td>
 931           <td>(Round to 2 decimal places)</td>
 932           <td>
 933             Function to provide a custom display format for the Y value for mouseover.
 934             <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/y-axis-formatter.html">yAxisLabelFormatter</a></div>
 935           </td>
 936         </tr>
 937
 938         <tr>
 939           <td><strong>avoidMinZero</strong></td>
 940           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 941           <td><code>false</code></td>
 942           <td>
 943             When set, the heuristic that fixes the Y axis at zero for a data set with the minimum Y value of zero is disabled.
 944             This is particularly useful for data sets that contain many zero values, especially for step plots which may otherwise have lines not visible running along the bottom axis.
 945             <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/avoidMinZero.html">avoidMinZero</a></div>
 946           </td>
 947         </tr>
 948
 949         <tr>
 950           <td><strong>logscale</strong></td>
 951           <td><code>boolean</code></td>
 952           <td><code>false</code></td>
 953           <td>
 954             When set for a y-axis, the graph shows that axis in y-scale. Any values less than or equal
 955             to zero are not displayed.</p>
 956
 957             Not compatible with showZero, and ignores connectSeparatedPoints. Also, showing log scale
 958             with valueRanges that are less than zero will result in an unviewable graph.<br/>
 959
 960             <div class="tests">Tests: <a href="tests/logscale.html">logscale</a>,
 961             <a href="tests/stock.html"> stock</div>
 962           </td>
 963         </tr>
 964
 965       </tbody>
 966     </table>
 967
 968     <h2>Common Gotchas</h2>
 969
 970     <p>Here are a few problems that I've frequently run into while using the dygraphs library.</p>
 971
 972     <ul>
 973       <li>If your chart doesn't display, be sure to check your browser's JavaScript error console. dygraphs makes every attempt to log errors and warnings, and these can often guide you in the right direction.</li>
 974       <li>Make sure your CSV files are readable! If your graph isn't showing up, the XMLHttpRequest for the CSV file may be failing. You can determine whether this is the case using tools like <a href="http://www.getfirebug.com/">Firebug</a>.</li>
 975       <li>Make sure your CSV files are in the correct format. They must be of the form <code>YYYYMMDD, series1, series2, </code>&hellip; . And if you set the <code>errorBars</code> property, make sure you alternate data series and standard deviations.</li>
 976       <li>dygraphs are not happy when placed inside a <code>&lt;center&gt;</code> tag. This applies to the CSS <code>text-align</code> property as well. If you want to center a Dygraph, put it inside a table with <code>align = center</code> set.</li>
 977       <li>Don't set the <code>dateWindow</code> property to a date. It expects milliseconds since epoch, which can be obtained from a JavaScript Date object's valueOf method.</li>
 978       <li>Make sure you don't have any trailing commas in your call to the Dygraph constructor or in the options parameter. Firefox, Chrome and Safari ignore these but they can cause a graph to not display in Internet Explorer.</li>
 979     </ul>
 980
 981     <h2 id="gwt">GWT Compatibility</h2>
 982     <p>There is currently no GWT wrapper around Dygraphs, however there is a class that can be used to easily load Dygraphs into the browser.  To use it, include the generated dygraph-gwt.jar file in your classpath and add the following line to your GWT module:</p>
 983
 984 <pre>
 985 &lt;inherits name=&quot;org.danvk.dygraphs&quot;/&gt;
 986 </pre>
 987
 988     <p>Call org.danvk.Dygraphs.install() when your application starts to install the JavaScript code into the browser.  You can use <a href="http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsJSNI.html">JSNI</a> to call Dygraphs from your GWT code, as in the example below.  The example uses the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/wiki/VisualizationGettingStarted">Visualization API for GWT</a> and the <a href="#gviz">Dygraphs GViz API.</a></p>
 989
 990 <pre>
 991   public static native JavaScriptObject drawDygraph(Element element, DataTable dataTable, double minY, double maxY) /*-{
 992     var chart = new $wnd.Dygraph.GVizChart(element);
 993     chart.draw(dataTable,
 994       {
 995         valueRange: [minY, maxY]
 996       });
 997     return chart;
 998   }-*/;
 999 </pre>
1000
1001     <h2 id="policy">Data Policy</h2>
1002     <p>dygraphs is purely client-side JavaScript. It does not send your data to any servers &ndash; the data is processed entirely in the client's browser.</p>
1003
1004     <p style="font-size:0.8em">Created May 9, 2008 by <a href=mailto:danvdk@gmail.com>Dan Vanderkam</a></p>
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