There has been a growth in sources of data visualisations too, particularly those involving data from social media such as Twitter. The Guardian's Datablog has also made a good effort to release data so that other users can make use of it to create their own visualisations, and tools such as Mapcite allow Excel data to be mapped.
This book, published by Collins in September 2012 is available from Amazon for around £9.
It has over 100 pages of visuals on a range of geographical themes, arranged in sections. They are mostly on human themes, but include some physical topics. A lot of them are based around mapping. There's also a useful section on the Millennium Development Goals (something which is relevant to many 'A' level specifications) and some World Statistics.
A copy or three of this book would make a useful resource for a GCSE or 'A' level classroom.
The diagrams make excellent discussion starters, and could also form the basis for critical analysis of the data that has been used to create them.
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