#Fusion Tables for Beginners
CAR Conference 2014
Baltimore, Md.
Daniel Lathrop
2014-02-28
Handout and data at: http://github.com/lathropd/talks
##A what? Fusion Tables are Google’s answer to a relational database in the cloud. It’s like an online version of Microsoft Access (or MySQL or Postgres or …) with minimal features but good visualization tools. And yes, it has SQL inside.
##Part A: Import some data
##Part B: Examine it
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##Part C: Merge it!!!!!!
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##Part D: More cool stuff
Shp Escape http://shpescape.org
Census TIGER Files http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2013/main
Fusion Tables Layer Wizard http://fusion-tables-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FusionTablesLayerWizard/src/index.html
ESRI Story Maps http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/
Tableau Desktop https://www.tableausoftware.com/products/desktop
Tableau Public https://www.tableausoftware.com/products/public