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.
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1. Create Pac-man Charts: Google’s own Matt Cutts describes how you can make a pie chart that looks like Pac-man.
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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.
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24. Google Gadget to Keep Track of Your Feedburner Stats: Visually display your Feedburner subscriber count with Google Charts.
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31. Excel and Google Charts: With Google Charts, you can easily and quickly make charts for Excel that would otherwise be difficult or impossible.
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41. Docoloco: This tool has used Google Charts to find and recommend places to eat and drink.
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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! ;)
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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.
ReplyDeleteThanks Greg.
I've not yet had a real chance to give that a try...
ReplyDeleteBut 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...