3. Importance in Business
Data can give you powerful insights
Visualizing the data will help you find answers to
questions which you never knew.
Simple tool Manage Data
Merge Data
Visualize Data
Share Data
For instance, it is now commonly used by journalists
@ Washington Post, Guardian UK, LA Chronicles
etc.
4. Some specs
Launched in June „09 from the Google labs by Alon
Halevy.
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/
Goals (i) An easy Data Management tool that is
meant for a large audience.
(ii) Provide incentives for Data Sharing
(iii) Enable users to collaborate effectively on
Data Management in the cloud
5. Pre-requisites
A Google account
Skill level – Beginner
A browser loaded with flash player
(preferably Google Chrome)
6. Data Sources
Private Tables managed in Google docs account
Public Tables which are available online
7. Getting Started
For our Demonstration we will use Twitter Data
Twitter Data was downloaded from www.twittersave.tk (Tutorial on
blog) where we have implemented a php script to download the data.
The excel file consists of twitter details of the followers of Sony India (
@sony_india ) and followers of LG India ( @ lgindiatweets ). Sony
India data is identified by a value 1 in company column and LG India is
identified by value 2.
Google Fusion
8. Importing Private Data
Redirects you to the Google Docs page
(Fusion Tables are now incorporated to
Google Docs under the name „Table(beta)‟)
Create Table(beta)
Compatible Formats (of sizes up to 100MB)
spreadsheets
comma-separated text (.csv)
other text-delimited files (.tsv, etc)
KML (.kml)
11. Other Features
Experiment Zoomable Line Chart
Application Programming Interface
SQL like code
Sharing Like that of Google Docs
Embeddable code
12. Thank You Google for the wonderful tool..
“Yes!! we admit it, again.. You make this world a
better place”
Editor's Notes
Keyhole Markup Language (.kml)Comma-separated value (.csv) files User Quota 250MBSpreadsheets: 400,000 cells, with a maximum of 256 columns per sheet. Uploaded spreadsheet files that are converted to Google spreadsheets format can’t be larger than 20MB, and need to be under 400,000 cells and 256 columns per sheet.