This document provides recommendations for easy and powerful online tools for mapping data, creating simple charts, visualizing words, and sharing work. It lists Google Map Builder and Click2Map for mapping, Google Docs and Google ChartTool for charts, Wordle for word clouds, and Google Docs and Document Cloud for sharing documents. It also provides contact information for Andrew Chavez.

1. Andrew ChavezAssociate Director, Texas Center for Community Journalism New Media Specialist, TCU Schieffer School of Journalism Stupid Web Tricks for Data

2. 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

3. Simple 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

4. Fun with Words Word Clouds:Wordle.net Everything else:IBM Many Eyes: Just Google it

5. Sharing Your Work For large document sets, documents that need notations:Document Cloud: DocumentCloud.org For spreadsheets, PDFs and PowerPoint documents:Google Docs: Docs.Google.com

6. Contact me Email A.CHAVEZ@TCU.EDU Phone 817.257.4647 Twitter @ADCHAVEZ Facebook FACEBOOK.COM/ANDREW.CHAVEZ LinkedIn LINKEDIN.COM/IN/ANDREWCHAVEZ