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Andrew Chavez Associate Director, Texas Center for Community Journalism
Director of Digital Media, TCU Schieffer School of Journalism
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+Sharing Documents
For large document sets, documents that need notations:Document Cloud: DocumentCloud.org
For spreadsheets, PDFs and PowerPoint documents:Google Docs: Docs.Google.com
+Cleaning Data
For large data sets:Google Refine: Code.Google.com/p/Google-Refine
+Charts
For small data sets:Google Docs: Docs.Google.com
Powerful, but often hard to use:Google ChartTool: ImageChartEditor.AppSpot.com
For large data sets:Google Fusion Tables: Tables.GoogleLabs.com
+Easy Mapping
Super easy, not so powerful:Google Map Builder: Maps.Google.com > My Maps
Not-so-easy but oh-so-powerful:Click2Map.com
For large data sets:Google Fusion Tables: Tables.GoogleLabs.com
+Fun with Words
Word Clouds:Wordle.net
Everything else:IBM Many Eyes: Just Google it
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Contact meEmail [email protected] 817.257.4647Twitter @ADCHAVEZFacebook FACEBOOK.COM/ANDREW.CHAVEZLinkedIn LINKEDIN.COM/IN/ANDREWCHAVEZ
