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@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.
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