Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Make an Online Chart the Easy Way

Infographics are the hottest way to present information on the Web right now. People are drawn to visuals, so charts, graphs and pictorials are often the best way to show data in a way that people will read and understand.
One of the newest Google Apps allows you to create charts and share them on the web with just a few minutes of configuration.
Google Chart Editor
First, click the picture of the kind of chart you want to create.
example images
Enter the data you want to appear in your chart.

data
Next, give your chart a title. You can also customize the font size and color for the title.
title
Enter the dimensions for your chart.
chart size
Choose a position and size for your chart’s legend.
image
Choose the fill style for your chart.
fill style
Changes made to your chart appear in real time at the top right of the page. A link to your chart is located directly below the preview. Copy and paste the link into an email or share it on your favorite social networking website. You can also embed the chart on a webpage using the HTML code directly below the link.
chart html
You can also embed the chart by clicking the Embed with Visualization API button.
visualization API
Google’s Image Chart Editor creates colorful, easy-to-read and easy-to-make charts. We like that a URL is automatically generated for each chart, and you can continue to edit a chart as often as you like. The Image Chart Editor is currently in Beta, but is fully functional.

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