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Yoah Bar-David & Itai Raz of Google have introduces the latest Ajax API: Google Visualization API, a new API designed for visualizing structured data.

There is a large visualization gallery that can show you some of the visualizations that you can use.

You tie into the API as you do with other Google Ajax APIs:

PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
  google.load("visualization", "1");   var q = new google.visualization.Query(DATA_SOURCE_URL); q.setQuery("select A, sum(D) group by A"); q.send(responseHandlerCallback);  

Take a look at this very cool example that the Gapminder team came up with (click on play)

This complements the Google Chart API, which just lifted its limits on the number of calls for charts.

NOTE: Google I/O is a conference being held at San Francisco on May 28-29 2008. APIs like this will be talked about. I will be there. And lots of good folks will be there (Steve Souders, Mark Lucovsky, Guido van Rossum, Jeff Dean, Chris DiBona, Josh Bloch).

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