Mapping Google Trends

Google has a novel Google Trends Datastore, which provides a nifty origin of information for anyone interested inwards mapping search trends on Google. Key datasets from Google Trends are added to the Datastore each 24-hour interval which tin endure downloaded inwards CSV format.

Many of the datasets convey a geographically chemical component subdivision to them. For example, at the minute you lot tin download a CSV file of '2016 Election Candidates: Search involvement yesteryear Earth inwards concluding iii months'. This dataset would allow you lot to practise a map of the USA showing which 2016 election candidates are beingness searched the virtually inwards each U.S. state.

Simon Rogers created a similar map during the recent U.K. elections. His Election 2015 - Most Searched for Leaders map visualized which of the UK's political leaders had been virtually searched for on Google inwards each U.K. election constituency during the previous 12 months.


Google has likewise created a overnice 3d globe visualization, A World of Change, to present how the globe is searching 'climate change'. The map allows you lot to explore what people are searching for some the globe inwards a publish of unlike climate alter related subjects.

You tin likewise click on cities some the globe to sentiment the altitude searches inwards that metropolis related to whatsoever of the listed climate alter subjects.