In a recent article I wrote on [Geeks are Sexy] Technology News about the new Google Chart API, I mentioned that the only thing that’s not simple about this API is the data encoding. So, I set to work to remedy that and I whipped up the little tool you can download below to help prototype Google charts and generate the URL.
It doesn’t include all of the options in the API, but I did provide an “Additional qualifiers” field where you can append anything you want to the chart’s URL.
For now, it only supports Simple Encoding. I may add Text and Extended Encoding at some point in the future.
Next in line is to add some JavaScript to make this more interactive, as well as to wrap the Chart object in a WordPress plugin.
You can see this in action (and use it all you want) at http://chipstips.com/demo/chartmixer.php.
