This Google Fusion Tables Map is inspired by President Obama’s State of the Union address where he backs natural gas fracking [1, 2] and Andy Arthur‘s map. I’ve placed the locations of natural gas wells over a map of property values in Pennsylvania (the full map can be found here). I lived in Broome County,  [ Read More ]

Google Fusion Tables is a useful (free) tool for visualizing data. You can create maps, scatter, bar, and pie charts using one or more data tables. Perhaps the best feature is the custom map function. Above is a map of cancer incidence rates from the CDC for Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Here  [ Read More ]