How to pull data from mysql database and visualize with D3.JS?

Question

I have a database in MySQL which I want to visualize in D3.JS. In order to do that, first I want to parse the data in JSON fo

Answer 1

Short answer: Web Service.

Basically, you'd want to make a web service that will return json data (for instance) to connect to d3.json() calls.

I would recommend you to use Python to quickly do something extending SimpleHTTPServer, or go with a web service framework such as web2py.