I am trying to use a \"fancy graph\" found at http://bl.ocks.org/kerryrodden/7090426:
Had the same issue, though I initially thought it is because of security restrictions of browser, that wasn't the case. It worked when I added the charset to the script tag as shown below:
The same is shown in the d3 docs, though it doesn't mention this issue specifically: http://d3js.org/
Yes, having it locally works too.
Here is the full example:
D3 tutorial