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I'm a visual kind of guy, so I pulled those travel stats into Google Docs: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqzimL8-eYhYdDdkcC1fS3I1VkFsQWppUDhGWDVCM2c
by logic 16y ago
I'm a visual kind of guy, so I pulled those travel stats into Google Docs:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqzimL8-eYhYdDdkcC1fS3I1VkFsQWppUDhGWDVCM2c&hl=en https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqzimL8-eYhYdDdkcC1...
The chart sheet has a graph of total miles traveled. Compare to US population:
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=population&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=state&tdim=true&tstart=331257600000&tunit=M&tlen=348&hl=en&dl=en http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&ctype=l...
- korch 16y agoHow did you pull those stats into Google Docs? It was automated, right? If Google Docs can take an arbitrary page, figure out what the data is and slurp it into a spreadsheet, then there are some very interesting kinds of data mashups to make!
- logic 16y agoSadly, no: I just imported the excel spreadsheet that's on the page j-g-faustus linked to. :) However, you can just cut-and-paste a traditional HTML table into Google Docs, and in most cases, it works exactly as you'd expect. Automating that is left as an exercise to the reader. :)