June 15, 2009 at 00:12Google fusion tables
Google does not live alone today. In the LJ community ru_infodesign slipped a link to a new service from Google Labs - Fusion Tables . This is a very beautiful visualization tool for almost any tabular data.
The essence of the service is simple: some statistical table is taken (the more data - the more interesting), and the data from it is visualized in one of the proposed ways.
A wide variety of display methods are possible; if the data contains geographical information, you can display them on a color-coded map, if there is temporary information, you can display it graphically.
You can also collect data from several tables at once and display them on the same chart. And, of course, as in any other office services from Google, you can work on tables collectively.
Unfortunately, the current version is very crude. Now this is not even an alpha version. It can be seen that the interface is underdeveloped in some places, and it’s rather difficult to navigate in all this piling. But hopefully, the product will reach beta soon enough.
The essence of the service is simple: some statistical table is taken (the more data - the more interesting), and the data from it is visualized in one of the proposed ways.
A wide variety of display methods are possible; if the data contains geographical information, you can display them on a color-coded map, if there is temporary information, you can display it graphically.
You can also collect data from several tables at once and display them on the same chart. And, of course, as in any other office services from Google, you can work on tables collectively.
Unfortunately, the current version is very crude. Now this is not even an alpha version. It can be seen that the interface is underdeveloped in some places, and it’s rather difficult to navigate in all this piling. But hopefully, the product will reach beta soon enough.