Interactive Web Tools

Maps


Tool: Google MyMaps

Progress in the Parishes (Center for American Progress)

Our Overstretched National Guard (Center for American Progress)

Flex Fuel Bait and Switch (Center for American Progress)


Tool: Google Maps Add-ons (ex: ZMaps)

Al Qaeda Attacks Around the World (Center for American Progress)


Tool: DIY Maps

What Are You Paying for the War? (Center for American Progress)

Dealing with Debt (Center for American Progress)

The World's Top Emitters (Center for American Progress)


Tool: AmMap

The Targets of Bush's Education Cuts (Center for American Progress)

Population in Europe (AmMap)

Custom Areas (AmMap)


Tool: TrueVector

Illinois Zip Code Map (TrueVector)

U.S. Country Map (True Vector)


Tool: GeoCommons

Dangerous Bridges in the United States (GeoCommons)


Tool: Actionscript Programmer

State of the Minimum Wage (Juan Tomassie for the Center for American Progress)

Education Report Card (Juan Tomassie for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Center for American Progress)

Chipping Away at the Number of Uninsured (Shannon Ryan for the Center for American Progress)


Timelines


Tool: circaVie

Iraq Timeline: The Broken Record on "the Next Few Months" (Center for American Progress)

Katrina Timeline: Failures of Reconstruction: The Government Must Do Better By New Orleans (Center for American Progress)


Tool: xtimeline

History of the Internet (xtimeline)


Tool: Timeplot

U.S. Energy Prices (Simile)

George W. Bush Approval Ratings (Simile)


Charts and Graphs


Tool: AmCharts

World Population Pie Chart (AmChart)

Crude Oil Prices Line Graph (AmChart)

Climate Bar Graph (AmChart)


Tool: XML/SWF Charts

3D Bar Charts (XML/SWF)

Stacked 3D Bar Charts (XML/SWF)


Tool: Swivel

Percentage of U.S. in Drought (Swivel)

UFO Shapes: Cloud (Swivel)


Tool: Gliffy

Server Configuration Diagram (Gliffy)

Academic Dishonesty Flowchart (Gliffy)


Miscellaneous


Jing Project: Make quick and easy how-to videos; this tool lets you frame off a section of your computer screen and allows you to film a video of everything that you're doing. It even provides you with easy-to-use presentation tools (arrows, ability to write text right on the screen, etc.).

Toonla: This website lets you create easily embeddable polls that you can post up on your website and have viewers vote on.

Clearspring: This widget-maker automatically creates share, embed, and email functionality to anything you have embedded on your website. It also collects it's own analytics, so you can see how many people have used it.

Tablecloth: Easy program that allows you to add classy, unobtrusive styling to tables—particularly useful if you have a lot of data and want to make it more accessible.