The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. It also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large. Several of the key benefits include:

• Embed visualizations directly into your website
• Write, share and reuse visualization apps
• Create extensions to Google products, such as Google Docs
• Use many data sources, one API
• The Visualization API is AJAX-based and includes Gadget extensions so you can easily wrap your applications as Gadgets

This session is a practical introduction to building visual applications using the Google Visualization API. We'll walk through building an application and a Gadget that uses the API, using that application as the basis for discussing the various facets of the API.

Nimrod Talmon

Nimrod Talmon is a software engineer in Google, currently working on the Google Visualization API. Apart from that, worked on BiDi Support for YouTube, and on latency issues and UI improvements to Google Spreadsheets. Nimrod holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.