Another chart API for your performance metrics

Google have got some charting code worth looking at, which basically allows you to create charts by modifying parameters in the query string.

Something as simple as this:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chtt=Tim's%20Beer%20Intake&cht=p3&chd=s:9h&chs=250x100&chco=00ff00&chl=Unemployed|Employed produces this:

Being on holidays at the moment, I’m lacking the um, ‘project’ on which to apply this technology, but am curious to see how functional it is. They give some examples on how to serialize datasets, and I think up to 4095 data points can be used. Not bad for those dashboard type applications …