Google has publicly released it Google Visualization API. The Google Visualization API helps developers in embedding visualizations and lets you turn structured data into charts, tables, maps, and more on your page.
What are Visualizations?: Visualizations are small embedded objects that take structured data from a variety of sources (including Google Spreadsheet) and present them in new and interesting ways. Visualizations can be embedded on any web page by adding some simple Javascript and HTML. Many visualizations have also been wrapped as gadgets, for display on web pages or additional targets.
In a blog post Google has indicated - "Today, we're publicly documenting the Google Visualization API's open-wire protocol, thus dramatically expanding the capabilities of this API beyond what had been available since we first launched in March of this year. Organizations can now expose their server-side data, such as in SQL databases and even in Excel spreadsheets, and display this data through visualizations from our growing directory. This flexibility makes it possible to connect easily almost any data source to a wealth of 40+ visualizations, including standard pie and line charts and complex heat maps and motion charts." Read more:
They have a gallery of Visualizations
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html
In addition Salesforce.com has developed resources (on top of Google Visualization API) which will help Salesforce.com administartors to quickly add new dashboards and reporting applications on their data.
Google has documented an open-source Python library that enables any Python developer to quickly start using the API. What is more interesting is that this library is that it also runs on Google's AppEngine.
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