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A data and visualization course will help improve clarity and insight. Why is a course necessary? Because the big data machine is slowly gaining momentum. According to the latest data, big data skills are in demands far as employers are concerned. The University of Illinois offers a four-week course through Coursera. This course is aimed at giving you a firm foundation in graphics programming, human perception and cognition, visualization, and other information. This will improve your grasp on the foundation.

Two tables are better. Get more from data with Google Fusion Tables. Bust your data out of its silo! Combine it with other data on the web. Collaborate, visualize and share.

"The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings. "

"We are a Google Research group that explores how information visualization can make complex data accessible, useful, and even fun. Our work includes public and Google-internal projects. Here is some of our public work."

We've created an interactive map of Government Requests that shows the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests for Google to take down or censor content. We hope this step toward greater transparency will help in ongoing discussions about the appropriate scope and authority of government requests. Our interactive Traffic graphs provide information about traffic to Google services around the world. Each graph shows historic traffic patterns for a given country/region and service. By illustrating outages, this tool visualizes disruptions in the free flow of information, whether it's a government blocking information or a cable being cut. We hope this raw data will help facilitate studies about service outages and disruptions.

Google Earth Engine is an online environment monitoring platform that makes available to the entire world a dynamic digital model of our planet that is updated daily. It stores petabytes of satellite data and allows high-performance tools to analyze and interpret this information that can then be visualized on a map, ranging from rainforest changes in the Amazon to water resources in the Congo.

This form will automatically draw your GPS data (or KML/KMZ file, or plain text data in CSV or tab-delimited format) overlaid upon street maps and satellite imagery in Google Maps.

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