Getting started with D3.js
First, download the latest version of D3 from the official website at http://d3js.org/.
To go directly to the latest release, copy this snippet:
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
In our basic examples, we can just open our HTML document in a web browser to view it. But when we need to load external data sources, we need to publish the folder on a web server like Apache, nginx, or IIS. Python provides us with an easy way to run a web server with http.server, so we just need to open the folder where our D3 files are present and execute the following command in the terminal:
$ python3 -m http.server 8000
In Windows, you can use the same command by removing the number 3 from Python:
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