/vega-datasets

Common repository for example datasets used by Vega-related projects

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vega-datasets

This data lives at https://github.com/vega/vega-datasets

Common repository for example datasets used by vega related projects. Keep changes to this repository minimal as other projects (vega, vega-editor, vega-lite, polestar, voyager) use this data in their tests and for examples.

The list of sources is in sources.md.

How to use it

NPM

Add this to your package.json:

"vega-datasets": "vega/vega-datasets#gh-pages"

HTTP

You can also get the data directly via HTTP served by Github like:

https://vega.github.io/vega-datasets/data/cars.json

Git subtree

You can use git subtree to add these datasets to a project. Add data git subtree add like:

git subtree add --prefix path-to-data git@github.com:vega/vega-datasets.git gh-pages

Update to the latest version of vega-data with

git subtree pull --prefix path-to-data git@github.com:vega/vega-datasets.git gh-pages

Changelog

Version 1.10

  • Add weather data for Seattle and New York.

Version 1.9

  • Add income, zipcodes, lookup data, and a dataset with three independent geo variables.

Version 1.8

  • Remove all tabs in github.csv to prevent incorrect field name parsing.

Version 1.7

  • Dates in movies.json are all recognized as date types by datalib.
  • Dates in crimea.json are now in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD).

Version 1.6

  • Fix cars.json date format.

Version 1.5

Version 1.4

  • Add Anscombe's Quartet dataset.

Version 1.3

  • Change date format in weather data so that it can be parsed in all browsers. Apparently YYYY/MM/DD is fine. Can also omit hours now.

Version 1.2

  • Decode origins in cars dataset.
  • Add Unemployment Across Industries in US.

Version 1.1.1

  • Fixed the date parsing on the CrossFilter datasets -- an older version of the data was copied over on initial import. A script is now available via npm run flights N to re-sample N records from the original flights-3m.csv dataset.

Version 1.1

Version 1.0, October 8, 2015

  • Initial import from Vega and Vega-Lite.
  • Change field names in cars.json to be more descriptive (hp to Horsepower).