How to run Mike Bostock's D3 examples?

Question

I\'ve been trying to run Mike Bostock\'s See-Through Globe example, but the references to his json files are incorrect if you try to reproduce it locally.

The issue comes

Answer 1

You can't access the remote json files because of same origin policy. And you won't be able to retrieve a JSON object using the file: protocol. Unless you want to perform surgery on the code by embedding the JSON directly, you're going to have to run a local server.

An easy way to run a local web server is execute:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8888 &

from the "root" directory of your site and then access it via http://localhost:8888