Visualizing.org. Getting Started With Charts - Google Chart Tools / Image Charts (aka Chart API) - Google Code. This page describes the basics of using the Chart API to make charts. Google Chart Usage Policy There's no limit to the number of calls per day you can make to the Google Chart API. However, we reserve the right to block any use that we regard as abusive. Table of Contents Getting Started The quickest way to make a chart for your web page is to use our new chart wizard. For more advanced users, for chart types or features not supported by the wizard (such as candlestick charts), or for a deeper understanding of how the API works, read the rest of this page. Overview Viewing Charts in This Documentation All the chart images in this documentation are generated live, using the Chart API.
If you are using Firefox, right-click and then select "View Image" or "Properties". To make a URL easier to read, this document often shows it on multiple lines. The Google Chart API returns a chart image in response to a URL GET or POST request. Back to top How To Make a Chart. Dataviz, democratized: Google opens Public Data Explorer. Two years ago, Google acquired Gapminder, the Swedish graphics-display company whose Trendalyzer software specializes in representing data over time. (You may recall the company from this awesome and much-circulated TED talk from 2006.)
Since the acquisition, Google has built out the Trendalyzer software to create its Public Data Explorer, a tool that makes large datasets easy to visualize — and, for consumers, to play with. The Explorer has created interactive and dynamic data visualizations of information about traditionally hard-to-grasp concepts like unemployment figures, income statistics, world development indicators, and more. It’s a future-of-context dream. “It’s about not just looking at data, but really understanding and exploring it visually,” Benjamin Yolken, Google Public Data’s product manager, told me. The big catch, though, as far as journalism goes, has been that users haven’t been able to do much with the tool besides look at it.
Unemployment in the U.S. - Google Public Data Explorer. Many Eyes.