Open Training @ NPC
Introduction To Google Fusion Tables
Join us for this intensive, hands-on introduction to Google Fusion Tables, one of the hottest new technologies available. Fusion Tables is a free tool that most newsrooms and others working with data use to create maps and real-time data visualizations.
This session is being taught by NYC-based John Keefe, an award-winning journalist and the Senior Editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at WNYC, New York Public Radio. Keefe infuses WNYC's journalism with data reporting and interactive news applications, including census analysis, map mashups, news charts and SMS-based crowdsourcing projects.
John is going to show you, step-by-step, how to start using Fusion Tables. This class will include practice exercises and some sample projects to take back and try at your organization. What can you do with Fusion Tables? Here are a few of John's projects:
Hacking the Census - How we made a Fusion Tables census map
- Story: Can Brooklyn’s historical black Congressional district survive?
- Map itself
- The Data: census.ire.org
- The Shapes: Census download page
- Shapefiles to Fusion: shpescape.com
- Tract shapes Fusion Table
- Population change table
- Population density table
- Congressional districts shape table
Election Data Without a Database
- See his post on Making AP Data Easy with Fusion Tables
PLEASE NOTE: This class is intended for people who are comfortable using spreadsheets and are eager to learn more about mapping. This is a BEGINNER class. If you're already well versed in Fusion Tables, this is not the class for you.
