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Loading data with D3

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Created on Dec 21, 2021

This example demonstrates how to load and inspect a remote CSV dataset using D3. It fetches a tidy version of the Anscombe’s quartet from a GitHub gist and displays three summary metrics in large text: the file size in kilobytes, the number of rows, and the number of columns. The code uses `d3.csv` to asynchronously parse the data, `d3.csvFormat` to calculate the raw size, and the `data.length` and `data.columns.length` properties to report the dataset’s dimensions.

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