Wind Rose Charts in JavaScript

How to graph D3.js-based wind rose charts in plotly.js .

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Wind Rose Chart

var data = [{
    r: [77.5, 72.5, 70.0, 45.0, 22.5, 42.5, 40.0, 62.5],
    theta: ["North", "N-E", "East", "S-E", "South", "S-W", "West", "N-W"],
    name: "11-14 m/s",
    marker: {color: "rgb(106,81,163)"},
    type: "barpolar"
  }, {
    r: [57.5, 50.0, 45.0, 35.0, 20.0, 22.5, 37.5, 55.0],
    theta: ["North", "N-E", "East", "S-E", "South", "S-W", "West", "N-W"],
    name: "8-11 m/s",
    marker: {color: "rgb(158,154,200)"},
    type: "barpolar"
  }, {
    r: [40.0, 30.0, 30.0, 35.0, 7.5, 7.5, 32.5, 40.0],
    theta: ["North", "N-E", "East", "S-E", "South", "S-W", "West", "N-W"],
    name: "5-8 m/s",
    marker: {color: "rgb(203,201,226)"},
    type: "barpolar"
  }, {
    r: [20.0, 7.5, 15.0, 22.5, 2.5, 2.5, 12.5, 22.5],
    theta: ["North", "N-E", "East", "S-E", "South", "S-W", "West", "N-W"],
    name: "< 5 m/s",
    marker: {color: "rgb(242,240,247)"},
    type: "barpolar"
  }]
var layout = {
    title: "Wind Speed Distribution in Laurel, NE",
    font: {size: 16},
    legend: {font: {size: 16}},
    polar: {
      barmode: "overlay",
      bargap: 0,
      radialaxis: {ticksuffix: "%", angle: 45, dtick: 20},
      angularaxis: {direction: "clockwise"}
    }
  }

Plotly.newPlot("myDiv", data, layout)