I noted in a post last week that the UN and other agencies with lots of data don’t do enough to make them accessible to citizens and useful as monitoring tools. Here’s a tool for data visualization – sure are purty.
“These screenshots and animations are simply intended to give a feel for what visualization and navigation in Walrus are like. The data shown are not necessarily meaningful in themselves.”
http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/gallery1/