It just looks like an elaborate way to market FusionTables. But it's a popular move for everybody these days, and even a couple of MOOC's have been used to spre

It just looks like an elaborate way to market FusionTables. But it's a popular move for everybody these days, and even a couple of MOOC's have been used to spread the word about some professors pet-project/platform. But putting that aside, I don't see why they didn't support any of the other free/open platforms (like R). (I'm expecting "but it's too complicated to that user-segment" argument)