Google I/O 2008 - Visualize your Data: Visualization API

Visualize your Data: Google Visualization API
The new Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that 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. We'll 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.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Google
• I/O
• IO2008
• Visualization
• API
• gcvio052008
• plid6D9B701069B4F2F4

[VondaFoni]

Cool Visualization through Visualization API.

[riccardovedovato]

when we'll use visualization api with more data sources than spreadsheets?

[yilone]

why svg? why not canvas

[electronixtar]

thx for the info!

[apizsa]

The Charts API renders static charts, whereas the VisAPI takes the concept one step further and lets third parties develop additional visualization widgets that people can re-use in their documents or apps.

[clubmedaficionado]

The speakers are very nervous as they describe their software. I do not understand why they should be so worried. Thus, the presentation is difficult to follow. To me they seem to be students that present their data for the first time in front of an audience. If they are well prepared in their field they should not be so tentative. If I were Google I would ask for a new presentation and a new video posted.

[electronixtar]

what's the difference between Charts API and Vis API?