Until now, data rendered in this book's examples have been defined within the code itself. Given this is a fairly limited method of storing data it naturally follows that a connection to external data sources must be developed. This chapter is dedicated to the topic of data accessibility for use in the Visualization API, including the following topics:
Preparing/cleaning data
Manipulating data with the Visualization API
Configuring the following to be consumed as a data source:
Spreadsheets
Fusion Tables
Manipulating data with their native APIs
Apps Script equivalent functionality
Creating your own data source
Data management is a topic that ranges well beyond the pages of this book, and the survey of methods presented in this chapter give only a handful of technical methods for working with data. This chapter is also not an exhaustive description of all Google data capabilities. For example, during the writing of this book, the Google Big Query (no SQL) and...