Welcome to Part 2 of 3 in my series Easy Rails Datavisualization. In Part 1, we created the Rails API endpoint (coordinates#index) which, when called, delivers our coordinates data as JSON.
Numbers and words aren’t always enough to sate a user’s appetite. This is where data-visualization comes in. Let’s use Rails and the GoogleMaps JavaScript API to serve up some mapped-out data for visual consumption.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, let’s make sure your Heroku-deployed app can actually save and load images using our three friends: Heroku, Paperclip and Amazon S3!
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