Mark Newman from Physics department at the University of Michigan took the time to create some interesting visualizations of the election data.  The goal was to provide a  graphic that better reflects the actual vote in the country.  Here are a couple examples below, for the rest visit his site ...

The site http://show.mappingworlds.com/ has put together some great visualizations of information.  They take statistics such as population, GDP, illiteracy, cause of death (AIDS), legal abortions measured by country and re size the country to reflect that number.  It is both a cool and effective way to present data, some ...