You're reading from Google Visualization API Essentials Make sense of your data: make it visual with the Google Visualization API

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849694360

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Google Visualization API

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Traci Lynn Ruthkoski

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Tools and Setup FREE CHAPTER

2. Anatomy of a Visualization

3. Spreadsheets, Charts, and Fusion Tables

4. Basic Charts

5. Formatting Charts

6. Data Manipulation and Sources

7. Dashboards, Controls, and Events

8. Advanced Charts

9. Publishing Options

Index

Programming concepts

This section presents a baseline of general programming concepts in an attempt to thwart the confusion of non-programmers while exploring the vast ocean of Google APIs. This brief introduction to programming is by no means a complete or authoritative source for the art that is application programming. Individuals often spend their lives learning the particularities of programming languages; others invest heavily in the improvement of the languages themselves. For the Google Visualization API, a more realistic approach is to provide universal concepts that are inherent in the Google API to developers that have little to no application programming experience. Readers with programming experience may wish to skip this section and go to the Visualization API common Framework section of this chapter.

Variables

Variables are locations in a program designated for storing information temporarily while an application runs. The application is able to access the variable and manipulate...

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Authors (1)

Traci Lynn Ruthkoski

Traci L. Ruthkoski is from an eclectic background in computation, statistics, media technology, and business. Traci is always looking for the latest challenges in technology. Having worked as an IT professional in both clinical and medical research settings, she has built High Performance Computing clusters from hardware to software application. More recently, Traci has been enabling academic research advancement through computing and cyber infrastructure in the cloud domain. She continues to work at the University of Michigan, now holding several roles supporting the overall advancement of Research Cyber Infrastructure and Information Technology at the University. Traci has published academic work in the IEEE CloudCom 2010 proceedings as well as maintaining a blog/tutorial repository for cloud computing tools and trends.

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