Google  Fusion  Tables  

Alon  Halevy  May  5,  2011  

google.com/fusiontables  

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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