Google Visualization API Essentials

by Traci Ruthkoski

Make sense of your make it visual with the Google Visualization API Overview In Detail 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. What you will learn from this book Approach This book is a step-by-step tutorial full of diagrams, core concept explanations, best practice tips, and links to working book examples. Who this book is written for This book will show you how create web-ready data visualizations using Google's infrastructure. Some HTML knowledge is the only requirement, although some JavaScript knowledge is also helpful.

252 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2013

Reviews

[John Chew · Rating 3 out of 5]

I began this eBook without prior knowledge of Google Visualization and can recommend this book as a convenient entry point for appreciating and being taken on an initial, practical "degustation" of what Google Visualization has or will have to offer. Not one to be just read casually on a mobile device, I found that absorbing the content worked best when opened on the same machine one is practising on, due to the many code snippets and links to additional content for learning or practice. "Essentials" in the title is not a pitch to be the ultimate reference on the subject; it's a reference to the staged learning, step-by-step examples, caveats and explanations that help to reduce frustration and push faster up the learning curve, which can seem steep for non-developers (by profession) who haven't worked with Google APIs before. That being said, the writing can come across as subjective in places, reading more as opinion than instruction; less of a dry textbook and more like a lecture. If you're looking for a guided tour of the Google Visualisation API, then this book is worth a look-in.
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[Muhammad Muddassir · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is well written. Its detailed and can be used for quick referencing as well. It encompasses the entire Google Vis API. I will recommend it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...