It's hard to make reams of data engaging or interesting; each of these artists were inventive.
A graphical representation of which part of a city people send social media photos from, with each color indicating a different social activity, from food to music to nightlife.
Tweets (photos tweeted) during hurricane Sandy in New York, with a diagonal line indicating when the power went out.
An animated globe with current weather patterns like wind or heat:
Misery index of how harsh conditions are currently:
Beautiful map of current wind:
The color of the sky as an indicator of air pollution in China, with an entire year represented by one ring of the circle:
Earth's population as spikes on a page with no map underneath; because populations are concentrated along the coasts, you can recognize the geography easily.
The author, who collected all of these does a great job in Popular Science. Katie Peek, http://www.katiepeek.com/ has a good webpage with links to her work.
And here's a list of her recent contributions to Popular Science:
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