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Without coordinates & noop channel

Certain chart types have neither measures nor dimensions on the axes such as treemaps and bubble charts. This is a case when the noop channel comes in handy for grouping and stacking elements in these kinds of charts.

To get to a treemap, we have to detach all dimensions and the measure from the axes and put two of them on the size channel, whereas the other dimension is still on the color channel.

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In HTML, create a placeholder element that will contain the rendered chart.

<html>
 <body>
  <div id="myVizzu">
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

In JavaScript, initialize and configure the chart:

import Vizzu from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vizzu@0.7/dist/vizzu.min.js'
import data from 'https://lib.vizzuhq.com/0.7/assets/data/music_data.js'

let chart = new Vizzu('myVizzu')

chart.initializing

chart.animate({
    data: data,
    config: {
        channels: {
            y: {
                set: ['Popularity', 'Kinds']
            },
            x: {
                set: ['Genres']
            },
            label: {
                attach: ['Popularity']
            },
        },
        color: {
            attach: ['Kinds']
        },
    }
})
chart.animate({
    config: {
        channels: {
            y: {
                set: null
            },
            x: {
                set: null
            },
            size: {
                attach: ['Genres', 'Popularity']
            }
        }
    }
})

Getting from a treemap to a bubble chart is simply by changing the geometry to circle. This bubble chart is stacked by the Kinds dimension that is on the size channel - this is why the bubbles are in separate, small groups.

chart.animate({
    config: {
        geometry: 'circle'
    }
})

In order to show all bubbles as one group, we use the noop (no operations) channel for the Genres dimension. The noop channel enables us to have a dimension on the chart, that doesn’t affect any parameter of the elements, only their count.

chart.animate({
    config: {
        channels: {
            size: {
                detach: ['Genres']
            },
            noop: {
                set: ['Genres']
            }
        }
    }
})