AppSheet allows you to use Google Drive Spreadsheets as a data source for a mobile app that works in web browsers or dedicated free Android and IOS apps. Although the restrictions based on the free version prevent more than 10… Continue Reading
CartoDB has a pretty low learning curve but creates excellent visualisations including ‘Torque’ views which allows you to ‘play’ data along a timeline. To date (May 15) this is the first free tool of its type we have seen. Here… Continue Reading
Sister to Qzzr, Pollcaster uses the same account details to create simple ‘one or the other’ type polls. A nice feature is that it collects age and gender information from participants (if they wish to share it – they get… Continue Reading
Highcharts is JavaScript application that can embed interactive charts based on data embedded in a web page (for small data samples) or external files. Highcharts also includes a module to include interactive maps, with drill down. Although it does require a… Continue Reading
https://mapsengine.google.com/ Although you will need a Google account to create one, annotated maps can be made and shared publicly on to those who have a link – the same model used in Google Docs. It is also possible (like a… Continue Reading
silk.co Silk boldly claims to have invented a web presentation format that deserves its own eponymous noun – a Silk Essentially a single page web site which allows for a Lego style construction: video, text, social media feeds, links can… Continue Reading
Stamen Design Interesting OpenSource mapping material (it uses custom tiles and OpenStreetMap). The embed code cannot be embedded directly in NILE (browser security), but you can just generate an image of a map to use as a URL. Lots of options… Continue Reading