© Tarek Amr and Rayna Stamboliyska 2016

Tarek Amr and Rayna Stamboliyska, Practical D3.js, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1928-7_9

9. Working with Data

Tarek Amr and Rayna Stamboliyska2

(1)Amsterdam, The Netherlands

(2)Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France

In this chapter you are going to learn how to load data from external websites. More specifically, you learn how to transform the data between different formats and do some slicing and dicing to the data before visualizing it.

Using Third-Party Data

Up to now, we provided our own data to visualize. In real life, we may also want to visualize data published by other people. Governments and many web applications nowadays publish their data via public APIs, and we may need to get this data on the fly by accessing ...

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