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Using TSV and DSV - D3.js Tutorial
From the course: D3.js Essential Training for Data Scientists
Using TSV and DSV
- [Instructor] So we've had a look at csv files and now I just want to show you tsv and dsv data handlers. They work in a really similar way to csv. Create or open a small tab separated value file. I've got this one here and the quickest way to do this if you don't have access to the files is to copy the first few lines of the csv file, replace the commas with a tab and then just save as data.tsv. Also create a new file and save as data handlers.js and then rereference your D3 file to data handlers. What we're going to do with this file is have a look at all the different handlers that D3 offers. So the first one we've already done and we can just copy it across and that is csv. So I've copied that and pasted it and then don't forget at the end you need a curly grace and a closing parenthesis like so and to check that that's working, let's just log the array to the console and there we have it as an array with lots of prices and dates in it which is just what we had before. So we're…
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