Visual Storytelling: The Little Prince and Our New Embedded Charts
June 29th, 2010 | Published in Google Code
“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”
The Little Prince, Chapter 1 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Drawing Number One
Inspired by the Little Prince and in honor of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 110th birthday, we are dedicating this blog post to his timeless masterpiece The Little Prince.
The Little Prince starts with a picture titled “Drawing Number One”, which grown-ups typically interpret as a hat, but only the acute eye of a child can reveal is actually a snake digesting an elephant. Well, unfortunately we were those kids who just saw it as a sum of two Gaussians.
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As you can see, we are working hard to support all of your visualization needs, but please always keep in mind the saying of the little prince’s fox:
(a creative contribution to our user submitted charts by James Andrews)
Before saying goodbye, we invite you to open the figures above in a new tab. This way you can observe how they are rendered using URL based requests to our Image Chart server.
"And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!"
Roger Trias Sanz and Nimrod Talmon,
On behalf of the Google Chart Tools team