Google Visualization API Essentials

Make sense of your data: make it visual with the Google Visualization API

Key Features

• Wrangle all sorts of data into a visual format, without being an expert programmer
• Visualize new or existing spreadsheet data through charts, graphs, and maps
• Full of diagrams, core concept explanations, best practice tips, and links to working book examples

Book Description

What you will learn

• Quickly launch a graph, chart, or map as an application, without the heavy-duty development environment
• Create a variety of interactive graphs from spreadsheet or database data
• Learn the Google API environment through Visualizations, and then apply the same concepts to other Google APIs
• Give users control over data viewing with Interactive Chart Dashboards, or let them style the visualization themselves with Chart Editor
• Discover Google Refine, a data-cleaning tool not just for visualization data
• Use Google Fusion Tables as a Google Map data source
• Embed a visualization in Google Spreadsheets using Apps Script API integration
• Customize visualization colors, fonts, titles, and chart styles
• Visualize your data over time with timeline and animation features

Who this book is for

This book will show you how create web-ready data visualizations using Google's infrastructure. Some HTML knowledge is the only requirement, although some JavaScript knowledge is also helpful.