Clearer picture- Visualization

Entering the 3rd week of the HEEP project, we finally have a better understanding of Google Visualization and how to use it. A good part of Visualization is that it works great with data on Google Spreadsheet. Although the data that we've received from HEEP was in an Excel spreadsheet format, It was organized by rows rather than columns making it harder to use query statements. So we're decide to import the useful information from their spreadsheet into a new spreadsheet on Google Docs.

Once that was done, the ball began rolling as we were able to create sample gadgets using the data from Google spreadsheet and some chart templates in Google Visualization. We finally have something to show the HEEP folks. Our first intention was to make our own visualization rather than using the sample templates. But after our meeting with professor Johnson, he recommended that we use sample templates for now so we will have something to show to HEEP. This way, they will have a general idea of how it will look like and suggest any chances they want to make, rather than waiting for us to make own our visualization which would be wasted time if its not what they want.



As of right now, we are still waiting for more data for some of the application they requested. Below is the sample of our Oil Price and Consumption gadget: You can find more Chart Samples here.