Senin, 27 Januari 2014

Creating GEO Maps using Google Fusion Tables

by Albert Anthony D. Gavino

January 28, 2014


I just started teaching a class Fundamentals to Business Analytics every Mondays and Wednesdays from 04:20 to 05:50 pm. I guess there are a lot of topics to cover and yet so little time to teach the students given only 14 Weeks. Anyhow I was able to introduce them to Google Analytics, IBM-Cognos Insight for Dashboards, Google APIs for making pie charts, bar graphs and Motion Charts and just recently Geographical maps using Google Fusion Tables.

Have you Ever tried making a GEO MAP? its quite easy, you just need additional variables such as Latitude and Longitude and this will be mapped to a tab under your google spreadsheet.

Google GEO maps
to use the spreadsheet, I made it available to public consumption and access it here:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1FKYKWJdCuzHnnjFXkBOapt2aoL-a0e5Q4xpRlho


You may also link it to other tables by joining them and come up with awesome GEO maps.

Google fusion tables may be accessed at www.google.com/fusiontables/