As already stated, you're most likely encountering a CORS issue with the XHR in the d3 library for an external resource to parse the JSON data.
However, here is another solution: use JSONP and Express/Node.js in conjunction with a jQuery function to initiate a client-side request for JSON, instead of using the original wrapper for d3 functions.
Had to remove the original d3.json wrapper and populate the adjacency diagrams with data from the request. Begin by cloning or downloading jsonp-d3-experiment and start the server using node server.js. Of course you need to have Node.js installed globally, beginning with Node Packaged Modules (npm). Copy your program into a subdirectory.
Put your JSON data in the jsonp-d3-experiment directory and modify server.js to route the request to your data:
// Return data from callback
server.get('/example', function(req, res)
{
// Read the JSON data and send to JSONP response
readJSON('example.json', function (e, json)
{
if (e) { throw e; }
res.jsonp(json);
});
});
Below is the code I modified for a co-occurrence matrix. I moved the entire script into $.getJSON and removed the d3.json function altogether.
<script>
$.getJSON("http://localhost:8080/example?callback=?", function(result){
miserables = result;
var margin = {
top: 80,
right: 0,
bottom: 10,
left: 80
},
width = 720,
height = 720;
var x = d3.scale.ordinal().rangeBands([0, width]),
z = d3.scale.linear().domain([0, 4]).clamp(true),
c = d3.scale.category10().domain(d3.range(10));
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
.style("margin-left", -margin.left + "px")
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
var matrix = [],
nodes = miserables.nodes,
n = nodes.length;
// Compute index per node.
nodes.forEach(function(node, i) {
node.index = i;
node.count = 0;
matrix[i] = d3.range(n).map(function(j) {
return {
x: j,
y: i,
z: 0
};
});
});
// Convert links to matrix; count character occurrences.
miserables.links.forEach(function(link) {
matrix[link.source][link.target].z += link.value;
matrix[link.target][link.source].z += link.value;
matrix[link.source][link.source].z += link.value;
matrix[link.target][link.target].z += link.value;
nodes[link.source].count += link.value;
nodes[link.target].count += link.value;
});
// Precompute the orders.
var orders = {
name: d3.range(n).sort(function(a, b) {
return d3.ascending(nodes[a].name, nodes[b].name);
}),
count: d3.range(n).sort(function(a, b) {
return nodes[b].count - nodes[a].count;
}),
group: d3.range(n).sort(function(a, b) {
return nodes[b].group - nodes[a].group;
})
};
// The default sort order.
x.domain(orders.name);
svg.append("rect")
.attr("class", "background")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var row = svg.selectAll(".row")
.data(matrix)
.enter().append("g")
.attr("class", "row")
.attr("transform", function(d, i) {
return "translate(0," + x(i) + ")";
})
.each(row);
row.append("line")
.attr("x2", width);
row.append("text")
.attr("x", -6)
.attr("y", x.rangeBand() / 2)
.attr("dy", ".32em")
.attr("text-anchor", "end")
.text(function(d, i) {
return nodes[i].name;
});
var column = svg.selectAll(".column")
.data(matrix)
.enter().append("g")
.attr("class", "column")
.attr("transform", function(d, i) {
return "translate(" + x(i) + ")rotate(-90)";
});
column.append("line")
.attr("x1", -width);
column.append("text")
.attr("x", 6)
.attr("y", x.rangeBand() / 2)
.attr("dy", ".32em")
.attr("text-anchor", "start")
.text(function(d, i) {
return nodes[i].name;
});
function row(row) {
var cell = d3.select(this).selectAll(".cell")
.data(row.filter(function(d) {
return d.z;
}))
.enter().append("rect")
.attr("class", "cell")
.attr("x", function(d) {
return x(d.x);
})
.attr("width", x.rangeBand())
.attr("height", x.rangeBand())
.style("fill-opacity", function(d) {
return z(d.z);
})
.style("fill", function(d) {
return nodes[d.x].group == nodes[d.y].group ? c(nodes[d.x].group) : null;
})
.on("mouseover", mouseover)
.on("mouseout", mouseout);
}
function mouseover(p) {
d3.selectAll(".row text").classed("active", function(d, i) {
return i == p.y;
});
d3.selectAll(".column text").classed("active", function(d, i) {
return i == p.x;
});
}
function mouseout() {
d3.selectAll("text").classed("active", false);
}
d3.select("#order").on("change", function() {
clearTimeout(timeout);
order(this.value);
});
function order(value) {
x.domain(orders[value]);
var t = svg.transition().duration(2500);
t.selectAll(".row")
.delay(function(d, i) {
return x(i) * 4;
})
.attr("transform", function(d, i) {
return "translate(0," + x(i) + ")";
})
.selectAll(".cell")
.delay(function(d) {
return x(d.x) * 4;
})
.attr("x", function(d) {
return x(d.x);
});
t.selectAll(".column")
.delay(function(d, i) {
return x(i) * 4;
})
.attr("transform", function(d, i) {
return "translate(" + x(i) + ")rotate(-90)";
});
}
var timeout = setTimeout(function() {
order("group");
d3.select("#order").property("selectedIndex", 2).node().focus();
}, 5000);
});
</script>
Notice that now the JSON data is in result, so the easiest thing to do was to assign it to miserables.
Note: jQuery is required for this solution.
Now you should be able to locally open and render all your d3 visualizations without hosting them on a server--simply open them in your browser straight from your local filesystem.
HTH!
