Announcing Google Chart Tools

It's worth noting that it's against the Google Visualization terms of service to self-host the javascript. It's not a big deal if you need the pure JS stuff, but anything which generates images is sending the data to google's servers. Be careful exactly what you're using if you're displaying sensitive data.

This really does make life a lot simpler for displaying data of pretty much any sort.

On a side note: it would have been awesome if they offered the charts with the XKCD look to it.

If you dealing with maths in your webpages the newest additions include TeX. My life just got simpler.

Have been using this for my App Engine powered CRM application. Very useful.

Was even able to come up with pipeline charts, by tweeking the bar chart. You can read about it here.. http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2009/11/whats-cooking-sales-o...

Sadly, they chose to demonstrate the capability using exploded 3D pie charts-- a truly terrible way to present data.

I didn't know they'd added TeX formulae; that's awesome. It's going to be a very long time before we see near-universal MathML adoption, but this pretty much eliminates the need for it.

Whoever came up with the 3D pie charts needs to be locked up, however.

I am still looking for the official Excel-like step-by-step wizard to create charts.

All this stuff already existed - this is just a post rebranding it as a single project

Ahh, very nice. I've been wanting more customisability from Google Charts for a while. It was between SVG charts and Google Charts and I think Google won.

Side note: How many times has Google made a reference to XKCD? Haha

Hrm... it may be time to use this for langpop.com...