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Google Fusion Tables
Alon Halevy May 5, 2011
google.com/fusiontables
SEARCH Alon Halevy
Discover
Manage, Analyze, Combine
Extract Publish
Fusion Tables: collaborating on data in the cloud, easy data publishing
Web-form crawling, Finding all HTML tables
Lists -> tables Extracting context
Structured data on the Web�
The Deep Web
store locations used cars
radio stations patents recipes
• Deep = not accessible through general purpose search engines – Major gap in the coverage of search engines.
HTML Tables on the Web
Discover
Manage, Analyze, Combine
Extract Publish
Fusion Tables: collaborating on data in the cloud, easy data publishing
Web-form crawling, Finding all HTML tables
Lists -> tables Extracting context
Structured data on the Web�
Fusion Tables Goals
• Ease of use: – empower users with no IT capabiliKes/support
• EnKcing: – Easy to create and share visualizaKons
• Integrated well with the Web: – Easy to publish data/visualizaKons on the Web
• Benefits from the cloud: – Easy (i.e., no) administraKon – Benefit from other data sets in the cloud – Integrate data from mulKple organizaKons/owners
Seamless integraKon with other web tools
Easy Import + Conserve AVribuKon
Import CSV, KML, spreadsheets
Discussions on Cell/Row/Columns
Coffee ProducKon
Coffee ConsumpKon
API’s and Info
• Fusion Tables API: – hVp://code.google.com/apis/fusiontables/ – Lots of code samples there too.
• Upload shape files to Fusion Tables: – hVp://www.shpescape.com/
• Import and export tables from R. • Fusion Tables papers: SIGMOD 2010, SOCC 2010 – google.com/fusiontables