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Data and data visualization

Data formats• Data can come packaged in many structures and

formats!

• Some of the most common:

• CSV (Comma Separated Values)

• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

• XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

CSV (Comma Separated Values)

• Commonly exported from spreadsheets and table-type documents

• Treated as a table

• “JavaScript Object Notation”

• Friendly to work with in JavaScript because the structure uses standard JS object and array formatting for access

JSON Structure

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Accessing object properties

Using object properties

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Steps for working with data

• Find a data source! Here’s a good resource, there are many options: https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis

• Format the data and understand its structure

• Look through the data and find the most relevant information: name, format, organization

Exercise

• Find a data set that’s interesting to you and identify its structure and key properties

• Create a graph visualization using data from that set. This can be either a static graph (bar, line, circle), or something dynamic and animated.

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