In this homework, you are going to work with AJAX and jQuery. You are going to have to learn a new concept on your own, however. I gave you tools to access a JSON file via AJAX in JavaScript, and I also talked about accessing data using jQuery, but I didn’t show you exactly how to obtain a JSON file using jQuery.
However, I will not leave you high and dry, and in fact, I will give you a hint – a massive clue. Go here: JQuery and JSON. It gives you an example of how to access a JSON file in jQuery and iterate over the data returned.
Next, you choose a dataset from one of these data sets Cool Datasets or something else that looks interesting to you. I suggest just copying the data from the page and creating a new page locally so that you have a local copy of the data, and you don’t have to worry about the cross-domain issue.
From there, you are going to make something show up from the JSON. Your goal is to make it show up in a pleasing way that is easily understood by the end-user.
Also, you are going to create a simple yet workable jQuery plugin that you can apply to the data returned from your dataset.
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