Online journalists are well aware of how important data can be to stories. But how do we give visual context to raw information without an army of developers at our disposal?
If the data has been normalized and saved as an Excel file, .ods, .csv or .kml, Google Fusion Tables can help. Fusion Tables manages large collections of data so you can query, map, timegraph, chart, and add interaction — including user comments — to them.
News outlets have used Fusion Tables most often for mapping data. Take a look:
- The poorest and richest places in England (heat map from The Guardian)
- Worldwide map of nuclear power stations and earthquake zones (heat map from maptd)
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