Since I posted the previous version of the solution that utilizes the Google Chart Tools / Interactive Charts (aka Visualization API), Google has updated their API and made the previous version more or less obsolete.

Using the downloadable Yahoo javascript/flash library to create multiple secure pie charts for your sensitive SharePoint data

Using the downloadable Yahoo javascript/flash library to create secure pie charts for your sensitive SharePoint data

This is a solution for creating charts directly from SharePoint lists using Google Visualization API.

The ‘Create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center’ session Christophe Humbert and I delivered at SPTechCon yesterday was a fun session. The recording of our session is available for download if you are interested in watching.

This article is part of a series as I document my processes of discovery for creating jQuery solutions in SharePoint. To view the entire series, click the link at the bottom of this article to view all of the articles in the series. — Mark
I laid the groundwork for my jQuery investigations in a previous [...]

Earlier this month, Christophe Humbert led a live online workshop on how to create miniature inline charts and graphs with Sparklines and jQuery.

Christophe Humber from Path to SharePoint continues to work on SharePoint interface enhancements. In next week’s live online workshop, SharePoint Charts and Graphs Part 03, he’ll deconstruct Gantt Views and enhance them with color coding and sliders.
The three solutions he provides in the workshop are critical pieces missing from the default Gantt Views: the ability [...]

With the techniques Christophe is developing for presenting HTML data in a calculated column, this looks very useful. I like the idea of exposing the information along a timeline to get a quick, visual reference as to the timed location of an event.