Data sharing is becoming an important life skill. In education, in business, in public projects, and in private projects allowing others to see, collaborate, and share your data is important for a host of reasons. This post will focus on free or inexpensive tools that allow for one form of data sharing or another. Free Tool Google Docs is a free Web-based application in which documents and spreadsheets can be created, edited and stored online. Files can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection and a full-featured web browser. Google Docs allows you to edit or share existing Microsoft Word or Excel files and Open Office files too. To use Google Docs just login using your gmail account.  Select what type of fie you want to use by selecting the menu icon. In the screen shot below you see a blank spreadsheet. The "title" field is in the top left corner. You can only see part of it here, but just click it to modify it.    If you hav...