Roy Tennant on Google's Public Data Explorer
I was interested to see recently that Google had opened up their data visualization infrastructure. One part of it is a tool that anyone can use to visualize publicly available data — the Public Data Explorer.
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They have a directory of many public datasets, but you can also upload your own data and use their tools to visualize it.
Read the Complete Blog Post
See Also: Visualize Your Own Data in the Google Public Data Explorer (via Official Google Blog, February 16, 2011)
See Also: Many Eyes from IBM (Another Free Tool to Visualize Data)
Users have an option to upload their own data sets.
Filed under: Data Files, Patrons and Users, Resources
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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