The new gadget gallery includes:
- Tables and pivot tables
- Maps and heatmaps
- Google web and image searches for selected values
- Organization charts
[via Google Operating System]

Oh, how I love free things. Especially free pretty things. And I'm the kind of person who things Flash charts and graphs are pretty, so I present amCharts and PHP/SWF Charts. amCharts is a relative newcomer that creates attractive Flash pie and donut charts based on data you put in a text file in either XML or CSV formats (which makes exporting from Excel easy). It's very configurable, allowing you to specify colors, border, tilt (for a 3D effect), labels, fonts, backgrounds, and so on. amCharts' creators promise bar, column, and line charts this spring.
Blogger and web designer Vitaly Friedman has put together a very handy list of nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow-charts. He identifies about 20 resources spanning free software, commercial software, web-based tools, and tutorials that will help you make pretty graphs, charts, and diagrams. Of course, I'm most interested in the free stuff, but if you use Illustrator or Excel, or are looking for something a little more robust, the tutorials and commercial tools could prove invaluable.
Microsoft Excel's charts are powerful, but boy are they a pain to use, especially if you just want quick, simple bars alongside your data. Well, no more: The blog at Juice Analytics has some very cool tips for making instant bar charts from your data. All it takes is the REPT() function, which will repeat any bit of text as many times as you want, and the | symbol. It certainly doesn't sound earth-shattering, but the results are impressive. The blog post goes on to show how you can use conditional formatting to color-code the bars according the value, and in a follow-up post there's even more impressive trickery. If you find yourself using Excel a lot, don't miss these tips.
Continue reading A First Look at the New Yahoo! Finance Charts Beta
Alexaholic "blends Alexa
traffic charts with a lightweight ajax-enhanced interface to satisfy hard-core Alexa traffic junkies." What's that
mean? It means you can check out Alexa traffic charts with a lot less clutter and a much more responsive interface than
you get at Alexa.com. It also has a JavaScript snippet that you can add to your web site to show live charts for any
web site(s). Wicked cool.
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