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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 A.CHAVEZ@TCU.EDUPhone 817.257.4647Twitter @ADCHAVEZFacebook FACEBOOK.COM/ANDREW.CHAVEZLinkedIn LINKEDIN.COM/IN/ANDREWCHAVEZ