Google Visualization API Essentials

252 Pages·2013·7.04 MB·English

by  Traci L. Ruthkoski

Google Visualization API
Essentials
Make sense of your data: make it visual with the
Google Visualization API
Traci L. Ruthkoski
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Google Visualization API Essentials
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Traci L. Ruthkoski Amey Sawant
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Louis-Guillaume Kevin McGowan
Carrier-Bédard
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About the Author
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.
I would like to thank my wife, Molly M. Nuzzo, for her constant
encouragement. Thanks also go to my family, Tom, LuAnn,
and Jason for the camaraderie that comes with being a family
of IT professionals.
About the Reviewers
Louis-Guillaume Carrier-Bédard has been working for the last 9 years with
Oracle technologies. Developments in the private and public sectors have helped
him to build a solid background and renown in the Oracle APEX community.
Louis-Guillaume received an honorable mention from Google Security for reporting
security vulnerabilities; he appears on Google's Hall of Fame.
Louis-Guillaume is Oracle APEX Development Director at SIE-Solutions and CTO
of newMarket. He is an adventurer who seeks new challenges to quench his thirst
for knowledge.
He has worked as Technical Reviewer of the book Oracle Application Express Forms
Converter (http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-application-express-forms-
converter/book).
I would like to say thank you to Michelle, the woman with whom
I share my life. Thank you Bruno-Pierre, Stéphane, and Éric for the
fun we had working on many projects.
Christophe Van Gysel (http://chri.stophr.be) is a Computer Scientist
active in the Drupal community where he maintains and contributes to several
projects. Beyond Drupal, he is also experienced in Distributed Systems and Machine
Learning. In his spare time, Christophe specializes in Web Security research. He has
participated in various white hat hacker programs.
He is the author and maintainer of Visualization API (http://drupal.org/
project/visualization), an actively used module for Drupal that provides a
robust and easy accessible way to visualize data. It supports, but is not limited to,
the Google Visualization API.
Thomas Schäfer, who is a Former German Air Force Captain (academic degree),
lives in Erftstadt, small city near Cologne, Germany.
He is an IT Pro since 2003. As a developer at Questback GmbH (Enterprise Feedback
Software Company), he has worked on PHP, Javascript, MySQL, jQuery, and
MooTools. He is also proficient with other technologies such as VisualBasic, C#,
JAVA, Ruby, Python, PostgresSQL, NoSQL, ExtJS, GoogleVis API, and NodeJS.
He has also worked in CSS Responsive Design using Compass.
He is 46 years old, married, and has two children.
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This book is dedicated to my mentor, Daniel E. Atkins III, the father of
cyberinfrastructure and a lover of all things Google.