Our aim is to draw a hexagon grid across the US map. D3-hexbin will do this for us later, but it can only draw a hexagon where there are points. So, we need to feed points to it. These points won’t have any information value for our users. They will only be used to produce the layout. As such, we can distinguish two types of points we will need:
- Layout points to produce the hexbin tiling
- Datapoints to render the color-scaled information
We’ll get to the datapoints soon, but at this stage, we’re only concerned with our layout points. Once done, you will have produced this wonderfully regular pattern of points stretching across our entire drawing area:
A grid of many points over the US
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