Jul 31

Google now offers the capability to not only access many public data sets, but to explore the data using their visualization tools. Cool stuff.

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Apr 26

Here’s an interesting visualization at Gizmodo showing the huge number of servers that Google has compared to the relatively small number everyone else has.

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Sep 22

Boing Boing explains how Google is making it easier to get your data off the Google system an on to your own or to a competitor.

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Aug 23

Slashdot reports that Google is working on overhauling its now 10 year old Google File System (GFS).

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Jun 09

Google Labs announced a new product today, Google Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables is about collaborating with others around data. Merge data sources, discuss the data, visualize, and publish to the web. Take a tour of Google Fusion Tables or read the post from the Google Research Blog.

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Apr 29

Google has brought its search and visualization power to some public data. Check out the Google Blog for more info. For example, if you search for “unemployment rate San Francisco” the first search result will be for this chart. The first data sets available are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau’s Population Division.

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Apr 27

Google announced new visualizations available via their API.

Here are a couple of the new features:

  • Customizable Table Visualization
  • Motion Chart with more interactivity
  • Toolbar helper element

Here is the full list of available visualizations.

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Mar 27

This is more of a Big Data post than one about analytics. Recently Data Center Knowledge interviewed Urs Holzle who oversees Googles data center operations to find out how they handle various outages.

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Mar 21

According to Google search trends for soup, springtime must be here.

Here’s a similar article from last fall talking about predicting flu outbreaks based on google searches.

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Mar 19

Google has created an API that lets you access multiple data sources that you can then display in your choice from a large selection of visualizations. You can use it to create reports and dashboards, all online. They have a large gallery of sample visualizations to give you some ideas to get started.

Google Visualization Tools

Google visualization tools

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