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Gapminder has been providing great visualizations like this for a while and now Amazon and Google are getting in on the public data mining game:

* Since Google's acquisition of Trendalyzer two years ago, they have been working on creating a new service that make lots of data instantly available for intuitive, visual exploration.

* Select public data sets are hosted on Amazon EC2 for free as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots. Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their own personal Amazon EBS volumes, using the public data set snapshots as a starting point.