Gapminder and Worldmapper

These are not 'new', but pretty close to being the best thing since sliced bread in my opinion.

Gapminder makes interactive 'maps' from data - maps that are in Cartesian coordinates (as opposed to geographic coordinates). The online version of Gapminder World is amazing, but you can also download the data and the offline version of Gapminder World. Nature (15 December 2016) has a nice article about Hans Rosling, the man behing Gapminder.



Worldmapper is a similar approach, but here the data are visualized as cartograms. Recently they extended that approach to visualize 'gridded' population cartograms for individual countries. Best of all: all data are available as MS Excel files - awesome.

World Population Map