The World Freedom Atlas

The World Freedom Atlas looks like a great tool for checking the correlation between measures of freedom and other national statistics:

The World Freedom Atlas is a geovisualization tool for world statistics. It was designed for social scientists, journalists, NGO/IGO workers, and others who wish to have a better understanding of issues of freedom, democracy, human rights, and good governance. It covers the years 1990 to 2006.

Mike Kellerman likes it too:

When I took a look around, I was impressed. The site allows you to pick variables, compare variables from different years (which makes it easy to compare, say, polity scores in 1995 with the level of corruption 5 years later), produce interactive scatterplots and boxplots, etc. The data is taken from existing published sources, some of it good and some of it less so (I have a particular beef with the Vanhanen "Index of Democratization", which has always struck me as possibly the silliest attempt to measure a concept yet produced in the comparative politics literature).

Check it out.