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Google Fusion Tables
- adi92 17y agowow.. this is really cool.. so unlike wolfram alpha, which is painstakingly gathering data from different sources themselves, google might be using this to let users give them the data (assuming they choose to make it public)
- pmorici 17y agoseems pretty rough even for a "labs" offering.
- henning 17y agoGoogle has a difficult task ahead of them as Avi Bryant & co have been working on DabbleDB, which seems quite similar to this, for a couple years now. www.dabbledb.com
- adw 17y agoThere's also Swivel (swivel.com), Verifiable (verifiable.com) and as mentioned earlier IBM's Many Eyes. You've always got the glowering presence of the Business Intelligence giants (SAP/Business Objects in particular) too... And our startup (timetric.com) too, I guess, though looking at this our emphasis is very different to theirs: we do time series exclusively, which means we have a completely different set of strengths and weaknesses. Interestinly enough, though maybe not suprisingly, some of the early adopters have been newspapers. IBM are working with the New York Times; we're UK based and have been working with the Guardian...
- brandonkm 17y agoHeres the official Google blog post that explains everything a bit more http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tables.html http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tab...
- mojonixon 17y agoIBM has manyeyes http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/
- udekaf 17y agoGoogle's going the way text indexing -> data visualizing/mining?
- stse 17y agoWonder if this came out of their acquisition of Gapminder's Trendalyzer software. The one also featured in the Ted videos with Hans Rosling [1]. They seem to at least have integrated it under "Visualize > Motion", but it isn't working for me right now. [1] http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html