Google Visualization API essentials : make sense of your data : make it visual with the Google Visualization API / Traci L. Ruthkoski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruthkoski, Traci L.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information visualization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, U.K. : Packt Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Biography/History:

Ruthkoski Traci Lynn: 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.

Summary:

This book is a step-by-step tutorial full of diagrams, core concept explanations, best practice tips, and links to working book examples. This book will show you how create web-ready data visualizations using Google's infrastructure. Some HTML knowledge is the only requirement, although some JavaScript knowledge is also helpful.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Tools and Setup; Knowledge prerequisites; Skill summary; System requirements; Interacting with Google Visualization Tools; Charts for Google Spreadsheets; Getting started - creating a new spreadsheet; Fusion Tables; Getting started - creating a new Fusion Table; Scripting code; Code Playground; Debugging tools; Console; Gadget Editor; Summary; Chapter 2:Anatomy of a Visualization; Common structure; Apps Script; Forms; Framework; Fusion Tables; Scripting code

HTML FrameworkTechnique options; Categories of visualizations; Static; Interactive; Dashboards; Events; Time-based charts; Summary; Chapter 3:Spreadsheets, Charts, and Fusion Tables; Spreadsheets; Creating a chart; The Chart Editor; Chart types; Reopening the Chart Editor; Chart styles; Using Apps Script; Framework; Scripting console; Fusion Tables; Importing or creating data; Data management; Editing rows; Modifying columns; Adding a formula; Views; New look in Fusion Tables; Merging tables; Creating a visualization; Non-map visualizations; A simple line graph; Experimental charts

Mapping featuresGeocoding; Cell formatting; Summary; Chapter 4:Basic Charts; Programming concepts; Variables; Number; Boolean; String; Array; Equation; Functions; Classes (and objects); Libraries; Commenting; Spacing/format; Visualization API common Framework; Load API modules; Apps Script Wrapper; A basic visualization; Code Playground; Apps Script; Summary; Chapter 5:Formatting Charts; Static; Spreadsheets; Fusion Tables; Chart Editor; Filters; API; Colors and fonts: Inline; Colors and fonts: Cascading Style Sheets; Views; DataTable formatters; Dynamic or interactive; Animated transitions

Dashboards and controlsChart Editor for users; Summary; Chapter 6:Data Manipulation and Sources; Preparing data; Google Refine-importing data; Google Refine-Facets; Google Refine-clean and supplement; Google Refine-export options; Architecture and data modification; Protocol; Visualization API data capabilities; Group and join; Spreadsheets; Forms; API; Fusion Tables-API; Data sources for Charts; Spreadsheets; Preparation; Query; Fusion Tables; Preparation; Query; Chart Tools Query Language; Build your own data source; Summary; Chapter 7:Dashboards, Controls, and Events; Architecture

HTML frameworkAPI framework; ControlWrapper; ChartWrapper; Dashboards; Controls; StringFilter; NumberRangeFilter; CategoryFilter; ChartRangeFilter; Controls with dependencies; Programmatic control; Global variables; Transition animation; Programmatic switch; User interface toggle; Create button; Button behavior; Chart editor for users; Summary; Chapter 8:Advanced Charts; Time-based charts; Motion chart; Spreadsheets; Code; Annotated timeline; Spreadsheets; Code; Maps; geochart versus geomap; The region option; The marker option; geochart; The ISO 3166 standard; Spreadsheets; Code; geomap

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Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299485938

1299485936

9781849694377

1849694370

OCLC:

854765796