Introduction: Lab Workbook http://goo.gl/KHgusm Fusion Tables Introduction: Lab Workbook John Little Data Analysis & Management Analyst Brandeleone Data & GIS Lab (226 Perkins) Duke University Libraries September, 2013

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Google Fusion Tables What is Fusion Tables? How are they used? A cloud database service by Google that helps you manipulate large quantities of data Easily merge your data with others Easily collaborate with others Intuitive, if rudimentary, GIS mapping combined with easy cloud-sharing (e.g. embedding in blogs) Charting and plotting Easily filtering or creating shareable sub-views of your data Best Characteristics Sharing, Mapping (geolocating address or latitude/longitude data), Merging What’s it Like? Looks like a spreadsheet, but it’s NOT Sometimes, before import, you’ve got to clean your data. (e.g. OpenRefine or even Excel) Import structured data (rows and columns) Sort data Faceting Create custom views Prerequisites A Google Account A google app: Go to “Google Drive” > Create > Connect to more apps > search: “Fusion” > Connect to “Fusion Tables”

Fusion Tables - Tour Tour Bicycle Theft Map - Raleigh 2012 data from OpenRaleigh Data Portal Click “source” in the legend to see the Fusion Table Notice Geocoding/Location, Filtering and Alternate maps Yellow highlights means a geocodable/recognizable field

Fusion Tables - Tour Adding Your Own Data LA-Politicians in Baton Rouge -- Where do they live Data can be imported from hard drive e.g. CSV, spreadsheet (Google, Excel, etc.) Or existing, shareable Fusion Tables Show: Card Map Card 2 Filtering Sharing Summary Map Layout Rows (Column header / Change) File: merge, Geocode, import rows, share + > Add Chart Mergable Data Merge Table - Louisiana Counties ShapeFile

Fusion Tables - Hands-on Login to your Google Account (or create one) Create a Fusion Table Go to “Google Drive” > Create > Connect to more apps > search: “Fusion” > Connect to “Fusion Tables” Click “Create” In a separate tab, open this Google Spreadsheet dataset -- http://goo.gl/VJVp9c and copy the long URL Go back to “Google Drive” Click “Google Spreadsheets” in the Import dialogue box, then paste the long URL into the “Or paste a web address here” field Click “Select” Wait (directions continue on next screen of this workbook)

Fusion Tables - Hands-on Notice the features in this screen Click Next Notice the fields in the next screen then click Finish Notice the Yellow highlighted fields whcih means those are recognized as potential “locations” which can be “geocoded”. You can change the columns into “location” fields. And you can set a “2-column” latitude / longitude location field

Fusion Tables - Hands-on Click the “Map of City” option Click the “down triangle” Choose “Select Location” Choose “FT address” WAIT as the Geocoding takes place Zoom in on Louisiana Click [browser] refresh and reselect “FT Address” as part of the “Select Location”

Fusion Tables - Hands-on Filter to Share a Custom View Click the “red + ” to add a tab Select “Add row layout” Click “down triangle” Filter” and select “Party Code” Select the “N” checkbox Now you can share just this view of the data, from the “down triangle” in this active tab, you would choose “Publish”. You can also rename the tab header from the same “down triangle”

Fusion Tables - Hands-on Customize Card View Click the “red + ” to add a tab Select “Add card layout” If it’s still open you can close (“x-out”) the Party Code Filter on the lefthand sidebar From the “down triangle” of the active “Card 2” tab, choose “Change card layout” Select “Office Title”, “Candidate Name”, “City2”, and “State2” -- this will require unselecting the other columns. Change the “Down” field to: 6 Change the “Sort by” field to “Candidate Name” Click “Save” Note: Compare with the “Cards 1” tab You can still add filters You can still “scroll” through the cards You can also “Customize” the output by going back to “Change card layout” and choosing the “Custom” tab

Fusion Tables - Hands-on Using multiple filters Click the “red + ” to add a tab Select “Add map” From the “down triangle”, set “Select location” to “FT Address” Zoom [out] to get a get a good view of the state Click the “blue Filter” button Select “Party Code” Click the “blue Filter” button again Select “Sex” Using both filters, show the distribution of Male (M) Democrats (D) Click on any dot in the map to engage a balloon of the background data Note: You can use more than one selection per filter. e.g. you can select Male Democrats and Male Not-affiliated (N)

Fusion Tables - Hands-on Explore Public Data Tables -- for potential merge Select “File” > New table … In the “Or search public data tables” box, type “Louisiana Counties” and click the magnifying glass In the lefthand sidebar, select “Fusion Tables” Click the first entry. This is a shapefile of Census data for counties in Louisiana Click “Switch to new look” in the upper-right Click the red + tab, and “Add map” Wait for the county shapefiles to appear Note: This data will not merge because there is no common merge component: e.g. “County Name” Note you do not have to limit your exploration to only Fusion Tables. The Fusion Tables search tool had other options including “Web” and “Web Tables”

Resources Introductory Tutorials and Guides Video Introduction (6:00 on YouTube) Google’s Introduction Google’s Basic Tutorials & Extending Knowledge “helps” Intro from Penn State’s Department of Geography Google’s Fusion Tables Workshop Article on relating spatial and attribute data from the US Census Bureau (Cartographic Perspectives - the journal of NACIS / Michael Peterson, Kelly S. Koepsell, Gabriel Pereda, and Spencer Trowbridge) Blog Post on shape files, KML, mouseovers (Michael Henry Keller) Mark’s LibGuide on the topic More listsings, including links to resource data and examples can be found in this blog post. For more discussions of Fusion Tables and examples of embedded maps see this set of tagged posts.

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