Data visualization

As a faculty member, it is my lifeline to produce charts (aka: publish or perish), which I learned long back in the late 80s of Harvard Graphics!
Now, with semantic web, online spreadsheets and data visualization tools, I am trying to take it to the next level!
No, not talking Sigma Plot but rather go for Ajax, Flash and Silverlight following the giants of coders and decoders.
I will start off with Google Chart API and see how that goes, from there, I will take it further.
I must pay tribue to many inspirational graphs found at: Information is Beautiful & other blogs.
Also to the collection of the DV tools and examples can be found in several blogs, e.g meryl, just do a simple google search.

With GC API, It is an interesting layout as it goes:

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A string where each character is a data point, and each series is delimited by a comma. Here are the supported data characters, and their values:

• A—Z, where A = 0, B = 1, and so on to Z = 25
• a—z, where a = 26, b = 27, and so on to z = 51
• 0(zero)—9, where 0 = 52 and 9 = 61
• The underscore character (_) indicates a missing value

So here goes my first chart, describing my state of mind :)
This is using Google Chart API:





Here is my second chart!
Now figure the encoded message :)





& obviously we should not forget the Google Visualization API Gadget Gallery!

Thank you