Google Fusion Tables Bootcamp¶
http://research.google.com/tables
Presented by Rebecca (of Google)
Examples¶
- NYC snowplow map
- Texas Tribune County map
- SF BAy Area Bike accident map
- Connection examples
Cool Tools¶
Chrome Extension to find tables
New capability to turn shared Google Spreadsheets data into visualizations automagically
Open Refine
- Used to be Google Refine, a closed source product
- https://github.com/OpenRefine #lamigrahack
Open Refine¶
Makes turning data into machine readable format much, much easier. Can we have this as a hosted service somewhere?
- Used to be Google Refine, a closed source product
- https://github.com/OpenRefine #lamigrahack
- Installation: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Installation-Instructions