Data GIF Maker by Google - Google's new tool turns boring data into GIFs!

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Awesome ! but.. this is what engineer are doing at google when they don't have any project ? lol
well, that and they also check the stock price....
Good question. I've personally met the lead designers from Google and yes, if a team feels like picking up an idea during or after a huge project to free their mind; they indulge themselves in building product they want. Fun-work to be able to get paid to build what you like while making a small change. Am I right or am i right? ;)
Like a lot of companies now days Google developers are allowed a certain number of hours per month to spend on pet projects. This allows developers to innovate in ways that aren't possible when they have to do feasibility studies to prove a project has a need, solves a real problem and has a ROI.
Link is bad, but this one works:
I have been trying too hard... ...to understand what this could be useful for. Still trying.
IMHO finding ways to make data easier to understand and funnier to look at is quite important :)
isn't that a matter of perspective?
Email marketing or indeed, any kind of digital marketing would be a great use case!
Just a try... maybe it could be useful to record on a gif the evolution of some real time dashboard data. Like recording the evolution over time of the number of connections to a website for 2 different browsers. You select your two dataseries and record/stop. The output is a gif you can present instead of a table.
I can see this being very popular in news stories in the future. Cannot get the things to render when I've tested it, but I can definitely see its promise.
Any example use cases?
let me know if you to find one. Tks.
is this really happening??
Neat idea. Takes too long to download, I feel like I'm on dial-up again.
odd, it was near instant for me on mobile 4G around the same time. Tried a faster dns?
I know it's lab, but it's not some crazy tech - just generating gifs. And it's taking ages...
doesnt work in both safari/chrome on top macbook :)
Cool, but what would a use of this thing be?
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