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I'm a faculty member of the Botany Department at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. My academic specialty is quantitative ecology. Current activities are dominated by research in ethnobotany and examining how Internet-based activities can enhance research and teaching.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Importing HTML into Google Docs Spreadsheets

It seems that there are functions in Google Spreadsheets that let you scrape data tables and lists.

This should be very handy for aggregating data about things for a region, such as weather, population, relief efforts, etc.

Labels: data, ethnobotany, open science

1 Comments:

Kim said...: Find details on these functions at http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75507; 3:46 PM