Writing Reports still not fun
When the Google Charts API came out a couple of weeks ago I mention that I thought that writing reports would now be fun. I had an opportunity to try out the api in a real world situation and it still isn’t fun. The problem is formating the data such that the chart api can accept it. The API has a limited range in which you can represent number. Depending on the representation you are limited to 100 or 4096. Therefore you have to take your raw numbers and devide them by 100 or by 4096 and then convert them to some whacky two character representation. Personally I think this is stupid. Why can’t the api just know that a number like 206 means draw something that represents 206, or better yet it should figure out the range of the numbers and then figure out the scale by itself. Besides these things the api works but it was annoying enough for me to just not put charts in the reports I wanted to generate, at least with the Google api.
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