February 03, 2012
FreeDive: new searchable online database tool from KDMC-UCB
Today the Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California-Berkeley released a simple tool to make data searchable on the web…
FreeDive uses the Google Visualization API to generate a widget that can be embedded in a website. To use it, post your data online in a Google Spreadsheet. Then, configure your widget and link it to the spreadsheet.
Within your widget, people can search your dataset, view a table of results, filter those results, and click on column labels to sort the table. Widget users cannot save or print results, however.
The News for Digital Journalists blog is made possible by a grant to USC Annenberg from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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