[visualization-api] Re: Custom data sources - Brian Armstrong - com.googlegroups.google-visualization-api

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eAi	19 Mar 2008 18:58
John Wang	19 Mar 2008 19:34
Dan Brickley	19 Mar 2008 20:05
The Viz (Google)	20 Mar 2008 05:06
Brian Armstrong	17 Apr 2008 13:27
Cesium	19 Apr 2008 09:09

Subject:	[visualization-api] Re: Custom data sources
From:	Brian Armstrong (barm...@gmail.com)
Date:	04/17/2008 01:27:24 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-visualization-api

Just another vote for other data sources, like MySQL. This will really only be come useful for us once something like that is supported. Nice work!

On Mar 20, 3:30 pm, wagnerwagner <d406...@gmail.com> wrote:

When you talk about adding more data sources, can you give us some word on whether external data sources will be supported? Does adding more data sources mean only google-centric sources, or does it mean custom-created sources? Or is that not something you can tell us now?

On Mar 20, 5:07 am, "The Viz (Google)" <the...@google.com> wrote:

We have released this API initially with only a single data source (Google Spreadsheets) b/c we wanted to get it out to you soon and b/c we believe it has a lot of value as it stands right now.

We do intend to grow this product and have a lot on our exciting roadmap. Adding more data sources is one obvious route. Please continue to follow this group and our blog. We will keep you informed as new capabilities are released.

In the meantime, remember that whatever you build will work on any Visualization API supported data source, now or in the future. So all your work stays relevant and your application becomes more useful with the growth of the platform at no added investment from your end.

On Mar 20, 5:05 am, "Dan Brickley" <danb...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20/03/2008, John Wang <yong...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, I also think the server side response spec is also very important for developer, as the application depends on the content (data source). If we can custom our own data source, I think the gadget will be more useful and interesting.

Yes, definitely.

I'd love to see support for some version of W3C's SPARQL spec. It's an SQL-like language designed for the Web, uses the RDF data model, with a REST/HTTP interface and XML or JSON result formats.

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql...

There are some similarities with the SQLish language defined by google viz, ... perhaps enough that the same result-set format could be used. SPARQL itself doesn't define aggregates, but they could perhaps be added in a layer prior to the viz tools...

On Mar 20, 9:58 am, eAi <talk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to be able to use the visualizations on my website to display > various bits of data that are in my own (mysql) data - is this a > feature thats likely to become available, or am I missing the point?