How to Map Spreadsheet Data on Felt
Felt is a multimedia mapping tool that I started using late last year and it has quickly become one of my favorite mapping tools. With Felt you can create everything some simple directions maps to maps that have historic overlays to maps of animal migrations and much more. The latest update to Felt makes it […]
Google Search Tools Students Often Overlook
The default action for students to take when given a research task is to turn to Google. Unfortunately, many students won’t venture much beyond the first couple of pages of Google.com results pages before declaring, “I can’t find anything about this.” But as Dan Russell reminds us in The Joy of Search, good search often […]
Exploring and Visualizing Data Sets
Big data and how it can be used is one of the topics that my ninth grade students are exploring this month. To that end, this week I introduced them to Google’s Public Data Explorer and Google’s Dataset Search tools. Public Data Explorer is a tool that has been around for more than a decade […]
How to Search for Open-Access Datasets
Last spring I had a chance to see Dan Russell give a presentation of a new Google search tool called Dataset Search. It spent 2019 in beta. Last week it lost beta label and is now widely available to anyone who wants to use it. In a recent blog post Dan Russell explained a couple […]
How to Use Google’s Dataset Search Tool
Yesterday, I wrote an overview of Google’s relatively new Dataset Search tool. It is a tool that is designed to help users locate publicly available datasets. As I explain in the following video, datasets aren’t limited to CSV or Excel files. Through the Dataset Search tool you will find datasets in the forms of Google […]
Google Dataset Search – Locate Publicly Available Datasets
Google Dataset Search is a search tool that I learned about this week during one of Daniel Russell’s presentations at the TLA conference. Google Dataset Search is a new (still in beta) search tool that is designed to help users locate publicly available datasets. This isn’t a tool for searching within the datasets, it’s a […]
