Just released by Frank van Cappelle of SACMEQ (Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality) is StatPlanet, an interactive application for exploring worldwide demographic, educational, health and socio-economic indicators. Plot choropleth and proportional maps, bar and scatter plots:
The application is highly interactive – pass your cursor over the map, or a plot, and get additional data breakdowns. There’s both an online version and a downloadable stand-alone Flash version for Windows systems, and an excellent one-page Features/How-To section on the main download page.
Other posts in the Demographic Data series
- Plotting US Census Data In Google Earth
- Worldwide Digital Geographic Data From The FAO
- US Census Data (And More) Visualization In Google Earth
- Global One-Degree Gridded Economic And Climate Data
- Demographic Maps And Data From Social Explorer
- Interactive US Census Data Viewing In Google Earth With The GE-Census Explorer
- Demographic Data For Your Zipcode
- Historical Census Data From the National Historical Geographic Information System
- Free Neighborhood Boundary Shapefiles
- Some TIGER Data Finally Out In Shapefile Format
- Old TIGER Data Still Available
- Urban & Environmental Modeler’s Datakit
- Mapping Human DNA Diversity
- Quick Country Information With The World Gazetteer
- Plot Demographic Data In Map, Graph, And Tabular Format With PolicyMap
- Animated 3D Thematic Maps With Uuorld
The link for SAQMEP has a missing “P in the “HTTP”. Otherwise an interesting post.