A taalk on Google Visualization API
July 4th, 2008 Posted in google | No Comments »Nir Bar-Lev and Yoah Bar-David taalks about the new Google Visualization API that lets you access multiple sources of structured data which you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. It also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large. Several of the key benefits include:
- Embed visualizations directly into your website
- Write, share and reuse visualization apps
- Create extensions to Google products, such as Google Docs.
Use many data sources, one API - The Visualization API is AJAX-based and includes Gadget extensions so you can easily wrap your applications as Gadgets
This session is a practical introduction to building visual applications using the Google Visualization API.Walk through building an application and a Gadget that uses the API, using that application as the basis for discussing the various facets of the API.


