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Esri Maps for Office is a powerful add-in for Microsoft Office that brings the capabilities of Esri's ArcGIS Online mapping platform to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint users. With Esri Maps for Office, you can easily create interactive maps of your organization's data, enabling you to see patterns that graphs and charts cannot reveal. Any of the interactive maps you create can be embedded in PowerPoint, so you can make your presentations even more impactful. And by leveraging ArcGIS Online, you can quickly and securely share your interactive maps in web pages, blogs, and mobile apps as well as with ArcGIS users.

This NYTimes map allows you to explore immigration in the United States over time. It also allows you to choose a country and view data relating to that countries immigrants in the United States.

This is a global map viewer that includes many global datasets and images in a fairly intuitive viewer. I also liked that you can go to the Statistics tab on the left hand navigation Table of Contents, and you can see the UN Millennium Development Goal Indicators mapped. Very straightforward.

The journey of mankind is an interactive flash animation that shows the population of the world through time.

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Are you looking for foreign languages of the world that are in danger of extinction? UNESCO has done an extensive job of mapping and categorizing the world's languages with the aim of cultural preservation.