Data Visualization with D3.js Cookbook

Loading data from a server

It is probably very rare that you will only be visualizing static local data. The power of data visualization usually lays on the ability to visualize dynamic data typically generated by a server-side program. Since this is a common use case, D3 comes with some handy helper functions to make this task as easy as possible. In this recipe, we will see how a remote data set can be loaded dynamically, and we will update an existing visualization once loaded.

Getting Ready

Open your local copy of the following file in your web browser:

https://github.com/NickQiZhu/d3-cookbook/blob/master/src/chapter3/asyn-data-load.html

How to do it...

In the code example of the asyn-data-load.html file, we will load data dynamically from the ...