Google continues to release very cool, functional, and more importantly, useful APIs. They have introduced a new Visualization API, and updated their Charts API. The updates to Google Chart include three new charts (Sparklines, Radar, and Map) and a more flexible usage policy:

Sparklines:

Radar:

Map:

Google Charts have usage restrictions, right now up to 250K charts per day, but I believe that is still very flexible from them. Hey, they are providing the free tools and horsepower; can’t complain!

The new Google Visualization API provides a number of very nice Visualization Gadgets for visualizing structured data. These visualization gadgets that can be included in web sites via their visualization AJAX API. In parallel with this release, the Google Docs team also released support for data visualization right from Google Docs spreadsheets.

These APIs and gadgets are like having a chest full of toys to play with; great tools for developers.

At eZee inc we are using/experimenting with the Google Chart API. Thanks Google!

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