Google Fusion Tables for Health

Google Fusion Tables is an interactive, web-based interface through Google that merges data into one online data set that can be easily displayed as charts and overlaid on Google Maps. In the context of health, Google Fusion Tables merges health data that can be easily viewed as charts and then linked with health facility longitude and latitude coordinate data. This application is best used for rapid assessment of data.

Getting Started

Be sure to have a Gmail or Google account and have Google Chrome installed.

Video Tutorials

These videos are meant to be used in conjunction with the Google Fusion Tables User Manual. They follow an example using mock data and publicly available Antenatal Care Sentinel Surveillance data from Mpumalanga Province in South Africa.

Download the following materials and follow along with the videos

• ANC HIV Prevalence | Mpumalanga 2010-2012
• HCT Mpumalanga Facility
• District level KML Mapping

Watch all of the videos or select individual videos below.

• Getting started with Google Fusion Tables (7:52)
• Importing data into Google Fusion Tables (4:32)
• Calculating formulas in Google Fusion Tables (4:15)
• Visualizing data in Google Fusion Tables: Cards (2:32)
• Visualizing data in Google Fusion Tables: Charts (5:20)
• Visualizing data in Google Fusion Tables: Point Maps (4:24)
• Visualizing data in Google Fusion Tables: Polygon maps (6:37)
• Downloading a Dataset from Google Fusion Tables (3:08)
• Filtering data in Google Fusion Tables (2:55)
• Editing data in Google Fusion Tables (2:16)
• Sharing Google Fusion Tables (4:09)