# Use static data in Vega Visualisation
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-static-data-in-vega-visualisation/239955
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-static-data-in-vega-visualisation/239955 "2020-07-06T04:43:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@biplabd67](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/biplabd67)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-static-data-in-vega-visualisation/239955/1 "2020-07-06T04:43:29Z")
I would like to use a static set of data instead of a url query to evaluate a Vega code I am trying to design.
Somehow I am not able to use the static data , any help or assistance pointer would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-static-data-in-vega-visualisation/239955/2 "2020-07-06T07:00:37Z")
Can you show what you tried? Vega offers different ways to specify data, with directly specifying the `values` being the simplest one - e.g. this example grabbed from the vega home page:
```auto
{
"$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega/v4.json",
"description": "A basic bar chart example, with value labels shown upon mouse hover.",
"width": 400,
"height": 200,
"padding": 5,
"data": [
{
"name": "table",
"values": [
{"category": "A", "amount": 28},
{"category": "B", "amount": 55},
{"category": "C", "amount": 43},
{"category": "D", "amount": 91},
{"category": "E", "amount": 81},
{"category": "F", "amount": 53},
{"category": "G", "amount": 19},
{"category": "H", "amount": 87}
]
}
],
"signals": [
{
"name": "tooltip",
"value": {},
"on": [
{"events": "rect:mouseover", "update": "datum"},
{"events": "rect:mouseout", "update": "{}"}
]
}
],
"scales": [
{
"name": "xscale",
"type": "band",
"domain": {"data": "table", "field": "category"},
"range": "width",
"padding": 0.05,
"round": true
},
{
"name": "yscale",
"domain": {"data": "table", "field": "amount"},
"nice": true,
"range": "height"
}
],
"axes": [
{ "orient": "bottom", "scale": "xscale" },
{ "orient": "left", "scale": "yscale" }
],
"marks": [
{
"type": "rect",
"from": {"data":"table"},
"encode": {
"enter": {
"x": {"scale": "xscale", "field": "category"},
"width": {"scale": "xscale", "band": 1},
"y": {"scale": "yscale", "field": "amount"},
"y2": {"scale": "yscale", "value": 0}
},
"update": {
"fill": {"value": "steelblue"}
},
"hover": {
"fill": {"value": "red"}
}
}
},
{
"type": "text",
"encode": {
"enter": {
"align": {"value": "center"},
"baseline": {"value": "bottom"},
"fill": {"value": "#333"}
},
"update": {
"x": {"scale": "xscale", "signal": "tooltip.category", "band": 0.5},
"y": {"scale": "yscale", "signal": "tooltip.amount", "offset": -2},
"text": {"signal": "tooltip.amount"},
"fillOpacity": [
{"test": "datum === tooltip", "value": 0},
{"value": 1}
]
}
}
}
]
}
```
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### Author:  [@biplabd67](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/biplabd67)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-static-data-in-vega-visualisation/239955/3 "2020-07-10T05:50:51Z")
Hi Joe,
Basically I was trying to work with the example from Vega "[https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/force-directed-layout/](https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/force-directed-layout/)" , but using local data.
I am frankly lost.
Once I make this work , I would move on to do a "url" based live query.
Regards
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### Author:  [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-static-data-in-vega-visualisation/239955/4 "2020-07-10T06:37:28Z")
See my example above - you can just inline the data as “values” in the spec
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-static-data-in-vega-visualisation/239955/5 "2020-08-07T06:37:29Z")
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