Everybody Wants To Do Social Media. Nobody Knows How. What the F. Loading... Chart Chooser. Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts. A note from the editors: Since this article was written Google has retired the Charts API. Let’s get something out in the open: I love statistics. As an informatician I can’t get enough graphs, charts, and numbers. So you can imagine when Google released their Charts API I thought Christmas had come early. I immediately began to draw up graphs for the holiday season using the new API; and using my new found chart-making skills I’ll show you what you can and can’t do with Google Charts. Mummy, it’s my first chart The Google Charts API allows you to send data to Google; in return they give you back a nicely-rendered graph.
Here’s a simple example: if we add the following line to an HTML page: Then we’ll see the line graph in Figure 1 appear in our page. Figure 1: A simple example of a line graph created with Google Charts. If you look at the URL used in the example you’ll notice we’re passing some parameters along in the query string (the bit after the question mark). Christmas pie Real data.