Chart Tools by Google Code
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” To explain a set of data, the better way is create a chart. In PHP there a lot of chart designing tools/application. Today I spent some time with a charting tool provided by Google Code. I find this tool is really useful and easy to use. Like other Google codes it provides a lots of customization options. There are 2 kind of charting type supported by 2 different APIs. One produces Image chart and another produces Interactive Charts.
To explore with Google Chart API for Image chart I chose the data set of browser usages by visitors on my blog for the month of January 2011. Here is a snapshot from Awstats from my blog cPanel.
Browse usage comparison of Cohesive Web for January 2011
Here is the chart produced by the Google Chart API.
Comparison Chart produced by Google Chart
Let me explain the process I have used for drawing this chart. Continue reading ‘Chart Tools by Google Code’ »
