D3 input spec

[jayunit100]

We need a sample D3 input spec. Please add as comment to this issue.

[mattfenwick]

Here are some options (just off the top of my head):

• user copy/pastes data into text field
• generate static json files off-line
• dynamic json files -- meaning that we need a server. then we can ajax in the data (this is high-work/low-reward so it's my least-preferred option)

[jayunit100]

thanks matt but we need a input format (not a use case). i.e.

f1,1002.10, 10.33 f2,1.9, 4.18 f3,9.502.10, 13.33

Just paste a snippet of the input format in the next comment

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Matt Fenwick notifications@github.comwrote:

Here are some options (just off the top of my head):

• user copy/pastes data into text field
• generate static json files off-line
• dynamic json files -- meaning that we need a server. then we can ajax in the data (this is high-work/low-reward so it's my least-preferred option)

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[mattfenwick]

btw I'm an idiot: I don't think it runs on chrome out-of-the-box b/c it doesn't let you load local files through a certain JSONP standard or something ... but firefox does, so can you give that a try and let me know if it works?

[mattfenwick]

something like:

{
  "objects": {
    "states": {
      "type": "GeometryCollection", 
      "geometries": [
        {
          "type": "MultiPolygon", 
          "id": 2, 
          "arcs": [
            [
              [
                9426
              ]
            ], 

[mattfenwick]

It seems there are two standards that d3 uses: TopoJSON and GeoJSON. I will look into those formats and add more details.

[mattfenwick]

More examples here.