Passing a string to pd.read_json is deprecated

[peterjc]

See also #425 for subcmd_plot.py and #437 for pyani/scripts/subcommands/subcmd_report.py

Spotted in the CI logs for macOS - an easy deprecation to fix, but not the only one.

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