DATs handle everything text-based in TouchDesigner — Python scripts, GLSL shader code, JSON, XML, and tabular data. They are the place where logic lives: Execute DATs fire scripts on events, Table DATs store structured data, and Web Client DATs pull in live data from APIs.

Key nodes: Table, Text, Select, CHOP Execute, DAT Execute, Web Client, JSON

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