Book Image

Google Visualization API Essentials

By : Traci Lynn Ruthkoski
Book Image

Google Visualization API Essentials

By: Traci Lynn Ruthkoski

Overview of this book

There's a lot of data in our world, and visual representations are often the best method of making sense of it all. Yet, it should not take an army of programmers and analysts to create visualizations in order to make data useful. The Google Visualization API is accessible to novice and advanced programmers alike, making data useful to more people."Google Visualization API Essentials" will show you how to create interactive data displays with very little code. The API, combined with Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables, is a complete system, from data management to analytical displays. Not only is it simple to learn, but the Google Visualization API can also be viewed as a first step to learning additional Google APIs."Google Visualization API Essentials" uses both methodology overviews and hands-on examples with real data to introduce chart and graph creation on the Google platform. Topics are presented from various aspects, including Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables, and Graphic User Interfaces. An overview of the various API development environments available to developers is also covered. Basic and advanced charts, data source connectivity, style formatting, and publishing options are also explored in depth."Google Visualization API Essentials" brings the arsenal of Google Visualizations into the web developer toolkit.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Louis-Guillaume Carrier-Bédard has been working for the last 9 years with Oracle technologies. Developments in the private and public sectors have helped him to build a solid background and renown in the Oracle APEX community. Louis-Guillaume received an honorable mention from Google Security for reporting security vulnerabilities; he appears on Google's Hall of Fame.

Louis-Guillaume is Oracle APEX Development Director at SIE-Solutions and CTO of newMarket. He is an adventurer who seeks new challenges to quench his thirst for knowledge.

He has worked as Technical Reviewer of the book Oracle Application Express Forms Converter (http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-application-express-forms-converter/book).

Christophe Van Gysel (http://chri.stophr.be) is a Computer Scientist active in the Drupal community where he maintains and contributes to several projects. Beyond Drupal, he is also experienced in Distributed Systems and Machine Learning. In his spare time, Christophe specializes in Web Security research. He has participated in various white hat hacker programs.

He is the author and maintainer of Visualization API (http://drupal.org/project/visualization), an actively used module for Drupal that provides a robust and easy accessible way to visualize data. It supports, but is not limited to, the Google Visualization API.

Thomas Schäfer, who is a Former German Air Force Captain (academic degree), lives in Erftstadt, small city near Cologne, Germany.

He is an IT Pro since 2003. As a developer at Questback GmbH (Enterprise Feedback Software Company), he has worked on PHP, Javascript, MySQL, jQuery, and MooTools. He is also proficient with other technologies such as VisualBasic, C#, JAVA, Ruby, Python, PostgresSQL, NoSQL, ExtJS, GoogleVis API, and NodeJS. He has also worked in CSS Responsive Design using Compass.

He is 46 years old, married, and has two children.