Check out these awesome new Google APIs!
These gauges are rendered using SVG or VML and will animate the gauges. Because of their use of SVG and VML it’ll actually work in IE6 which I find amazing.
The geochart is showing states with color and size indications of density vs. population. It doesn’t appear to handle markers very well but when I switched the geochart to use regions it loads all the pieces of data like 50 states with a population and area defined quickly. The markers issue is probably because it’s geocoding the location of every state every time it loads but I’m just speculating.
These APIs are just a small part of the Google API available to developers who want to fiddle with things. If you’re further interested in playing with these APIs then you can check them out in their visualization playground. I also wanted to see how complicated it’d be to add JavaScript to blog posts.