Create with Fusion Tables

These tutorials step you through using Fusion Tables’ features to accomplish neat things with your data. See what others have done in the Example Gallery.

Basic tutorials

Get started using Fusion Tables:

• Create a map
  Turn a table of locations into a map.
• Create: a business card layout
  Convert a table of data into a customized display
• Customize and filter
  Create a chart, customize your maps, learn about cards, create filters and summaries of your data.
• Share and publish
  Make your data accessible to others, publish Fusion Tables visualizations.

Extending your knowledge

Gathering data

• Create: Collaborative data gathering
  Give everyone their own table to update, while keeping the eagle-eye view on all of it.
• Visualize field data in Google Earth and Fusion Tables
  Use Open Data Kit to collect data on mobile devices and bring it into Fusion Tables.
• Send Google Forms input to a Fusion Table
  Create a web form to gather data, then sync it to a Fusion Table for analysis and visualization.
• Use moderated form input to power a live visualization
  Add a moderation step to your Google Form sync

Maps

• Make an intensity map with custom boundaries
  Display polygons in different colors according to values in your data. Combine data values and KML polygon boundaries from your own or other data sources.
• Put a chart into your map's info window
  Display a chart for each map marker.
• Use merge to apply map styles by category
  Want a different icon or color for the map? This trick makes it easy to add the style column.

Publishing / Embedding

• Embed visualizations in Google Sites
  Work around the JavaScript restrictions in Google Sites

Merge tricks

• Use merge to apply map styles by category
  Want a different icon or color for the map? This trick makes it easy to add the style column.
• Extract a subset of data
  Quickly take just the part you want from a big data set.

Working with other tools

• Use Overlays in Google MapMaker
  Host your location data in Google Fusion Tables to help while editing Google MapMaker.
• Tip: Include a Street View image
  Display a street view image of the row's location in the map info window or a card layout.