Google Charts

Google charts is a great/free resource for doing charting.  Many organizations have restrictions on what software you can install, but with google charts no software is needed, just an internet connection.  See this link.  


Here is a simple example:

To get this image, all you have to do is reference this url: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World


You can simply couple this with python using the webbrowser library. To open the image in a web browser via python try this:


import webbrowser
url = http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250x100&chl=Hello|World
webbrowser.open(url)