Learn Google Fusion Tables with WNYC senior producer, noon May 1

Join Webbmedia Group for an intensive, hands-on introduction to Google Fusion Tables, one of the hottest new technologies available, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on May 1.

Fusion Tables is a free tool that most newsrooms and others working with data use to create maps and real-time data visualizations.

Click here to register. A discounted price is available for National Press Club members. The class is limited to 24 seats.

This session is being taught by John Keefe, an award-winning journalist and the senior editor for data news & journalism technology at WNYC, New York Public Radio. Keefe infuses WNYC's journalism with data reporting and interactive news applications, including census analysis, map mashups, news charts and SMS-based crowdsourcing projects.

Keefe will demonstrate, step-by-step, how to start using Fusion Tables. This class will include practice exercises and some sample projects to take back and try at your organization.

PLEASE NOTE: This class is intended for people who are comfortable using spreadsheets and are eager to learn more about mapping. This is a beginner class. If you're already well versed in Fusion Tables, this is not the class for you.