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Google Chart API Revisited published on Dec 7, 2007

A comment on my previous post prompted me to do a little digging on what Google’s Chart API is and isn’t capable of, and what I found gives me reason to worry.

I’ll preface the remainder of this post with a disclaimer: I do realize that Google is a corporation, and its ultimate goal is to make money. I’m not disputing that, nor do I find it offensive in any way. It’s the type of …
Google Chart API published on Dec 7, 2007

So, I was surprised to see my news this morning, when information aesthetics spread the news of the new Google Chart API. Looks like they’ve been reading my blog, and they decided to save me the trouble of installing matplotlib or anything.

It’s not interactive, which still makes Dojo charting a very useful alternative, but it’s good to have a quick, easy API for just embedded charts for simple data. As an example, here’s a chart …
Looking back at the sprint published on Dec 3, 2007

Sadly, the sprint is now over, but we got a lot done. I won’t go over the whole list, but I will regretfully admit that I didn’t get anything finished in time to get committed during the sprint.

I did get a ton of work done on the FileField refactor, and a new patch will be ready this week. I didn’t realize just how hacked that patch was, so I had to a lot of cleanup and …

Google Chart API Revisited published on Dec 7, 2007