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Fanchao Zhou edited this page Feb 6, 2016 · 52 revisions

Google Fusion Tables

Google Fusion Tables (shortened as Fusion Tables) is a web app developed by Google in 2009. It's a tool for data management, visualization and sharing. Fusion Tables has two interfaces:

  • The Graphic Interface for Web Users
  • The API for Programmer

For Web Users:

You can have a basic ideas about Fusion Tables Here: Help Page for Fusion Tables.

Basically, Fusion Tables allows you to:

  • Find public data
  • Import your own data
  • Manage your data
  • Visualize your data
  • Merge two tables
  • Share your data

To Find Public Data, go to Fusion Tables Public Data. Example: Starbucks Locations

Creating A Fusion Table

  1. Log in your google account(Better NOT be your A&M account).

  2. Open your Google Drive.

  3. In the sidebar on the left, click on "New->More->Connect More Apps"

  4. Search for Fusion Tables, click on "Connect"

  5. Now, again in the left sidebar, click on "New->More->Google Fusion Tables(A green icon with a white zigzagging line through it)"

  6. Choose one of the three options to create a new table.

Critical Concepts about a Fusion Table:

  • Table ID(Unique ID number of a table)

  1. On the top bar of a table, click on "file->about this table"

  2. The last entry is the table ID.

  • Access Control

  1. Click on "file->share"

  2. By default, a table is private at first-only the creator can access this table. To invite more editors, Type in the names or email addresses to be invited.

  3. To change the access settings, below "Who can access", click on "change...".

  • Table Management

  1. Edit Columns and Rows

  2. Add a new visualization style

  3. Merge two tables or Create a View(A subset of a table)

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