World Mapper is a cool site that takes different data about the world and distorts maps based on the figures to give you a visual image of the state of the world. You can choose from many different sets of statistics to get a view of the disparity that exists in the world between the rich and the poor countries.
Gap Minder is a google tool that shows statistical trends with moving circles on a graph. It's a bit difficult to explain but is pretty straight forward to understand when you play around with it a little.
Posted by rose at March 24, 2007 08:12 AM