CSV is considered to be an industry standard for data analysis. The most common ways of producing CSV data are:

  • export from Excel
  • export from databases

CSV stands for comma-separated values so a simple CSV file looks the following way:

Product,Price
Apple,2.50
Cherry,5.25

For getting the data from the file, specify the URL to this file:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div id="wdr-component"></div>
<link href="https://cdn.webdatarocks.com/latest/webdatarocks.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://cdn.webdatarocks.com/latest/webdatarocks.toolbar.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.webdatarocks.com/latest/webdatarocks.js"></script>
<script>
var pivot = new WebDataRocks({
	container: "#wdr-component",
	toolbar: true,
	report: {
		dataSource: {
			filename: "URL-to-your-CSV-file"
		}
	}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

In most cases, a comma (,) is used as a separator between different fields, such as Product and Price. WebDataRocks also supports other separators.

If fields in your data are separated by a semicolon (;) such data source can be used without any additional configurations. If fields in your data are separated by some other symbol, e.g. a colon (:), you need to specify fieldSeparator as in the example:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div id="wdr-component"></div>
<link href="https://cdn.webdatarocks.com/latest/webdatarocks.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://cdn.webdatarocks.com/latest/webdatarocks.toolbar.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.webdatarocks.com/latest/webdatarocks.js"></script>
<script>
var pivot = new WebDataRocks({
	container: "#wdr-component",
	toolbar: true,
	report: {
		dataSource: {
			filename: "URL-to-your-CSV-file",
			fieldSeparator: ":"
		}
	}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

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