Who said charts were boring? Charts, despite being relegated to the forlorn spaces of school projects, financial planners, and business-y execs with shiny suits and money on their minds, are useful things.

And, surprisingly, they're not that easy to make (the good enough for ad execs ones, at least). You've got to have a good data set, and an equally good chart maker with fancy graphs and colors.

ChartGizmo is one such program. It's a new startup that deals in graph making for free.

You can use it to make graphs for your blog, social network, or yes, that dreaded school project. With ChartGizmo, you can make three standard types of graphs:pie, bar, and line.

Data can come from a number of sources, including static, dynamic from Javascript code and dynamic from html. You can also export data from trusty, old Excel. Not convinced? It's free and there's more diagrams and charts to come in the upcoming versions.

ChartGizmo is a web services that allows you to make charts easily without a spreadsheet program.

Provides line, bar, pie and ring chart types with normal and 3D visualization. Creating a chart is very easy, simply input your data or import from a spreadsheet data then choose the design to suits your need.

This services is free of charge but requires you to signup first.