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Summary: Google Fusion Tables: Data Management, Integration and
Collaboration in the Cloud
Hector Gonzalez, Alon Halevy, Christian S. Jensen
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Anno Langen, Jayant Madhavan, Rebecca Shapley, Warren Shen
Google Inc.
ABSTRACT
Google Fusion Tables is a cloud-based service for data man-
agement and integration. Fusion Tables enables users to
upload tabular data files (spreadsheets, CSV, KML), cur-
rently of up to 100MB. The system provides several ways of
visualizing the data (e.g., charts, maps, and timelines) and
the ability to filter and aggregate the data. It supports the
integration of data from multiple sources by performing joins
across tables that may belong to different users. Users can
keep the data private, share it with a select set of collabora-
tors, or make it public and thus crawlable by search engines.
The discussion feature of Fusion Tables allows collaborators
to conduct detailed discussions of the data at the level of
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