Archive for ‘Online Applications’ Category
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As the newest release from Google Labs, Fusion Tables is a tool that aims to make your data more accessible. Today we're introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental…
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Axis Maps recently released indieprojector, a new component to indiemapper, their in-development mapping project to "bring traditional cartography into the 21st century." Indieprojector lets you import KML and shapefiles and…
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Google announced today that they have made a small subset of public datasets searchable. Search for unemployment rate and you'll see a thumbnail at the top of the results. Click…
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The ever popular newsmap (above), a tree map view of Google News, got a facelift a few days weeks ago. Markos Wekamp, the creator, has changed to a rectangularized tree…
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The New York Times homepage has a lot of news to report. While well-organized and well-designed, the Times recognizes that there's still room for improvement as seen in their article…
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Google recently released Google Latitude, which is an online application that lets you share your location with online friends: Of course when any application shares where you are at any…
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The Mozilla group is starting to dig into visualization to participation within the active Mozilla community, and they're looking for some input: If you’re a visual designer, data visualization guru,…
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"Climate change is a global problem. But it's individuals who will create the solution." This is the WattzOn premise. WattzOn is a free online tool to quantify, track, compare and…
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This is a guest post from Elad Israeli and Roni Floman of SiSense, which specializes in easy-to-use business intelligence. Pundits joke that Google Adwords is driving Microsoft Excel sales. Two…
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First off, happy new year! I'm back from my short hiatus from blogging and school. I trust everyone had a good holiday week. I saw a couple of good movies:…
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One of the more painful parts of analysis or visualization is that you have to get the data in a proper format. Real data almost never comes how you want…
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Tabbloid is a free service that lets you receive your feeds in newsletter, or rather, tabloid form via email at a set time and frequency (as a PDF file). Above…
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When Google first launched their visualization API, you could only use data that was in Google spreadsheets, which was pretty limiting. Yesterday, Google opened this up, and you can now…
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I keep stumbling on rants about how media coverage of presidential candidates is uneven, biased, etc. Everymoment Now provides a way to see what's going on with the election from…
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Michael comments, "Onionmap is nothing when compared to this Chinese site...They've practically mapped out the entire Shanghai (and quite a few other China cities) in a SimCity-like fashion! Amazing stuff!"…
Google Fusion Tables Helps You Visualize and Manage Your Data
Indieprojector Makes it Easy to Map Your Geographical Data
Google Adds Search to Public Data
A Couple New Looks for Google News
News at a Glance with New York Times Article Skimmer
Tools You Need to Track Energy Consumption – WattzOn
Using Visualization to Optimize Adwords: Time Series Visuals vs the Pivot Table
Discover Your Future for 2009 – CookieSays Fortunes
Read Your Feeds Like a Newspaper with Tabbloid
Google Visualization API Opens Up
Compare Media Coverage of Presidential Candiates with Everymoment Now
See the World Through SimCity’s Eyes – One Up On OnionMap
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