Archive for January, 2009

An interactive guide from the FT.

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The IMF has an interesting interactive mapping tool for several of it’s economic and development datasets.

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Combines the WB’s Doing Business project with Googlemaps. Very useful for regional comparisons.

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An interactive atlas of the MDGs, maintained by the World bank:

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A quick way to access basic WB data for all countries – includes World Bank news for each country.

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The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2009 contains some interesting risk charts. Full report. Graphics brief. Press release.

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From FT: An interactive map that shows the relative performance of a currency against other major currencies for a range of time periods (today, 5day,. up to 1 year)

[Note: There is no direct link to the map (silly java), you have to click on the "Currency Macromap Launch now" window on this page]

A similar heatmap (with more currency coverage) is available at Oanda.com

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An animated calendar of major indicators, showing max and min as it goes (click on the “Next” button to run it through).

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Interactive chart of production and consumption. Related Article.

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