Google Tool: Gapminder
OMG, this is an amazing information tool! Makes the sociologist in me drool.
What we’ve got here is the ability to compose visual pictures of dynamic global information on many different matrixes. Such as how does income affect life span across all countries while showing the countries by population and then run it as a movie across the last 30 years. Then change all the variables. Wow.
See the one minute tutorial.