verifiable.com

To the list of things you can create and share using a Web 2.0 app, add data visualizations. This tool not only outputs (very) pretty graphs, charts and infographics – it gives people access to the underlying data, so they can verify what you’ve done.

I’m dreaming of a world where every news report on an opinion poll would use something like this. Yes, you’d get the horse-race numbers and the broad sweeping trend… but if you wanted to drill down, you could have a look at the raw numbers, do some crunching and come out with your own analysis.