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Bring Your Own Data: Google Opens Up Visualization API
When Google launched its Visualization API in March, it only allowed developers to create applications on top of spreadsheets in Google Docs. Starting today , developers can also use the API to create graphs and gadgets from any data source connected to the web, including SQL databases and Excel spreadsheets. The Visualization API gives developers the ability to build gadgets, using a set of over 40 different types of visualizations, ranging from interactive bar charts and timelines, to maps and gauges . According to Itai Raz from the Visualization API team, Google also created and documented an open-source Python library that will allow developers to start using the API quickly and which runs on Google's AppEngine . Salesforce Today, Salesforce.com also announced that it has created a number of tools that will make using the Visualization API easier for Salesforce's own customers and developers.Learning AJAX APIs Made Easier: Google Releases API Playground
The Playground runs on top of Google's App Engine , which is quickly becoming Google's preferred way of developing and releasing new products. Ben Lisbakken, a Developer Programs engineer at Google, developed the API Playground as a "20% project." Google also made the source code for the API Playground available under the Apache 2.0 license.
Next, you load the libraries. The preferred method is to load the libraries via standard tags (as in , which will result in the fastest loads. As you can see in the code snippets above, the first argument to google.load is the name of a library. The second argument is a version specification. The complete list of libraries is a growing collection of the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries.
Libraries API - Developer's Guide - Google Libraries API - Google Code
Instead, I urge you to use the Google AJAX Libraries content delivery network to serve jQuery to your users directly from Google’s network of datacenters. Doing so has several advantages over hosting jQuery on your server(s): decreased latency , increased parallelism , and better caching . In this post, I will expand upon those three benefits of Google’s CDN and show you a couple examples of how you can make use of the service. Update : Since you’re reading this post, you may also be interested to know that Google also hosts full jQuery UI themes on the AJAX APIs CDN . A CDN — short for Content Delivery Network — distributes your static content across servers in various, diverse physical locations.