What is Google Fusion Tables?
Google Fusion Tables is a cloud-based service designed for working with structured data. It allows users to upload, host, manage, share, visualize and collaborate on tabular datasets. Some of the key features of Google Fusion Tables include:
- Data importing from various formats like CSV, KML, spreadsheets
- Data exporting to formats like CSV for further analysis
- Filtering, sorting, aggregation and joining of datasets
- Visualization through charts, graphs, maps and network graphs
- Collaboration by sharing datasets privately or publicly
- Integration with other Google services like Google Drive, Maps and Sites
It provides a simple but powerful web interface and API to handle large datasets without the need to setup any servers or infrastructure. Popular use cases include data warehousing, geospatial analysis, network analysis and sharing data online. The service is available freely to consumers with certain usage limits and also as a paid version - Fusion Tables Advanced for additional capability.
Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio, Pentaho, Redash, Sisense, Amazon QuickSight, Mapline, datapine, GIS Cloud, Datacopia are some alternatives to Google Fusion Tables.