From my latest blogpost: "The Data section of British paper The Guardian is a great example of illustrating reams of data and helping readers make sense of it - such maps are only illustrations, not exacting science as in my previous post - readers wish to grasp trends for tabular data by country, rather than examine their exact geographies.
Google Fusion Tables (GFT) are a very easy means to post and combine data stored by countries, say, from the UN Data repository. I already wrote here about using World Bank Ease of doing Business data, as well as my own mash-up of WolframAlpha search results for religions per capita. I will now use World Bank data from the GFT Catalogue to do the following..."
Correction: Illustrative Maps in Current Affairs
Correct blog link is http://bit.ly/o46W81
Andrew Zolnai blog.zolnai.ca