Make feel of your info: make it visible with the Google Visualization API
Overview
- Wrangle every kind of knowledge right into a visible layout, with out being knowledgeable programmer.
- Visualize new or current spreadsheet facts via charts, graphs, and maps.
- Full of diagrams, center idea reasons, top perform guidance, and hyperlinks to operating e-book examples.
In Detail
There's loads of info in our international, and visible representations are frequently the easiest approach to making feel of all of it. but, it's going to no longer take a military of programmers and analysts to create visualizations so one can make info beneficial. The Google Visualization API is available to amateur and complicated programmers alike, making info valuable to extra people.
"Google Visualization API necessities" will make it easier to create interactive information monitors with little or no code. The API, mixed with Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables, is a whole method, from information administration to analytical monitors. not just is it basic to benefit, however the Google Visualization API can be seen as a primary step to studying extra Google APIs.
"Google Visualization API necessities" makes use of either method overviews and hands-on examples with genuine information to introduce chart and graph construction at the Google platform. subject matters are offered from a variety of facets, together with Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables, and photograph consumer Interfaces. an summary of many of the API improvement environments on hand to builders is additionally lined. easy and complex charts, info resource connectivity, type formatting, and publishing thoughts also are explored in depth.
"Google Visualization API necessities" brings the arsenal of Google Visualizations into the internet developer toolkit.
What you'll examine from this book
- Quickly release a graph, chart, or map as an software, with out the heavy-duty improvement environment.
- Create a number of interactive graphs from spreadsheet or database facts.
- Learn the Google API surroundings via Visualizations, after which follow a similar options to different Google APIs.
- Give clients keep an eye on over information viewing with Interactive Chart Dashboards, or allow them to kind the visualization themselves with Chart Editor.
- Discover Google Refine, a data-cleaning device not only for visualisation data.
- Use Google Fusion Tables as a Google Map information source.
- Embed a visualization in Google Spreadsheets utilizing Apps Script API integration.
- Customize visualization shades, fonts, titles, and chart styles.
- Visualize your information through the years with timeline and animation features.
Approach
This publication is a step by step educational jam-packed with diagrams, center thought factors, top perform suggestions, and hyperlinks to operating publication examples.
Who this ebook is written for
This publication will convey you ways create web-ready info visualizations utilizing Google's infrastructure. a few HTML wisdom is the one requirement, even supposing a few JavaScript wisdom is additionally helpful.