Found today, while looking for other references, very different in purpose and style, open to comments.
New York Times, the lives of Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp in Jordan:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/09/world/middleeast/zaatari.html
Al Jazeera, interactive, Mapping Syria:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2013/07/20137188552345899.html
A wow-looking chrome experiment presentation (ergo, you need to see it on Chrome):
http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe/
Still, I agree with my colleague Bella Hurrell’s comments: “As far as I can see it doesn’t tell you the bloomin’ obvious thing you might want to know – which county imports the most and which exports the most – and where countries rank in relation to each other.”
