tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20035359.post6116273890400141709..comments2024-03-21T14:19:30.671-05:00Comments on Higher Ed/: Dynamic Geo-Tagged Mapsdavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08633920160358488401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20035359.post-39533473177072818342008-11-22T10:48:00.000-05:002008-11-22T10:48:00.000-05:00Great point! You can get data onto the web that w...Great point! You can get data onto the web that way quickly without having access to an in-house web-server.davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08633920160358488401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20035359.post-44357705215673193272008-11-16T17:11:00.000-05:002008-11-16T17:11:00.000-05:00If you can find (or publish) data in an HTML table...If you can find (or publish) data in an HTML table, you can use function in Google spreadsheets to "screenscrape" the data from the table into a spreadsheet.<BR/><BR/>Once it's there, you can use the spreadsheet charting tools to display the data in the original HTML table, or take it out of the spreadsheet and into a yahoo pipe:<BR/><BR/>The process is described here:<BR/><A HREF="http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/" REL="nofollow">Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets</A> <BR/><BR/>You can also use Google spreadsheets as front end to XML web services (no programming required :-) - for example, <A HREF="http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/viewing-campaign-finance-data-in-a-google-spreadsheet-via-the-new-york-times-campaign-data-api/" REL="nofollow">Viewing Campaign Finance Data In a Google Spreadsheet via the New York Times Campaign Data API</A> or <A HREF="http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/calling-amazon-associatesecommerce-web-services-from-a-google-spreadsheet/" REL="nofollow">Calling Amazon Associates/Ecommerce Web Services from a Google Spreadsheet</A>Tony Hirsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07192476380420213082noreply@blogger.com