Show World

ShowWorld is a great mapping site that visualizes US and world statistics in such categories as education, GDP, crime, and the like. There are some other similar sites out there, but this one has US state-by-state statistics and has a very clean interface. Worth a look.

World Mapper

I'm reading Don Tapscott's Grown Up Digital which is, by the way, an amazing read so far. But one of the maps in the book is from a source called World Mapper . I'm sure others have seen the site before, but it is amazing to me. It's a collection of maps that can are resized according to different categories such as land mass, distribution of wealth, internet usage, and the like. There are animated maps as well. It's a fun site to explore and would be a great resource in all different types of classes.