Friday, June 06, 2008

Google Chart API Fun - “50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API”

College@Home - 50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API

“Chartophiles, have you heard that Google has made it incredibly easy to generate your own slick-looking charts? It’s true, and all it takes to make one is the ability to read and edit a URL. This has made it possible for lots of people to get creative with charts. Read on to see what’s been done, and how you can do it yourself.

1. Create Pac-man Charts: Google’s own Matt Cutts describes how you can make a pie chart that looks like Pac-man.

7. Thematic Mapping with the Google Charts API-A Brief Tutorial: You can create your own red state/blue state style map using Google Charts.

24. Google Gadget to Keep Track of Your Feedburner Stats: Visually display your Feedburner subscriber count with Google Charts.

31. Excel and Google Charts: With Google Charts, you can easily and quickly make charts for Excel that would otherwise be difficult or impossible.

41. Docoloco: This tool has used Google Charts to find and recommend places to eat and drink.

49. Weight loss: This user has set up a chart to track his weight loss.

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Fiona sent me an email letting me know about this cool list… Any list that starts with creating Pac-man charts is a list for me!  ;)

While you’re there, check out some of their other lists too. Like  Virtual Learning: 25 Best Sims and Games For the Classroom, 100 Free Library 2.0 Webinars and Tutorials and 40+ Most Useful Mashups for College Students.

 

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Google Chart API Released

2 comments:

Schruender said...

Do you know if you can make a chart in blogger? I figure they are both Google products, but I can't figure out if there's a way a chart can appear directly in my blog.

Thanks Greg.

Greg said...

I've not yet had a real chance to give that a try...

But you might work around the problem. Maybe add a Blogger/Google Gadget to the page? When I search for "Chart" on the Add a Gadget to my blog page, I get 109 entries. Some seem to be tied to specific data, but others to more generic (like to a Google Docs Spreadsheet).

So maybe add a Gadget that way, see how it's done there and then copy and paste and tweak to get it to do what you need.

Yeah, it's a slimy hack, but might work...