Announcing freeDive: Searchable Data For Everyone

February 7, 2012

KDMC is proud to announce the release of freeDive, a simple tool to make data searchable on the Web.

Imagine you have a spreadsheet of campaign contributions or crime statistics that you want to share. For years, you had to pay for a service or know how to program to build searchable databases of that information. You shouldn’t have to do that.

KDMC built a simple wizard that uses the Google Visualization API. It pulls data from a Google spreadsheet, builds a table and creates filters that users can interact with. freeDive then gives you an embeddable widget that you can paste in any Web page. Your readers powerful tools to search and play with data and you don’t need to program.

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