Guardian open weekend: mapping with Google Fusion tables

Google's Kathryn Hurley and I have just presented at the Guardian Open Weekend on data journalism and how we do it at the Guardian. See her presentation above. In fact, these are the slides from my presentation, which you can download from Prezi below: We talked a lot about Google Fusion tables. This is an online database and mapping tool, which we use all the time, here at the Datastore. You can see an example here of our use the other day in the world tobacco map , or gun ownership in England & Wales or with the Iraq Wikileaks data . Kathryn has put together this really useful tutorial in using fusion tables - give it a go yourself, and see what you can make. NEW! Buy our book • Facts are Sacred: the power of data (on Kindle) More open data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world's government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world's global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook