Story Maps

Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story.

Google Fusion Tables

Fusion Tables is an experimental data visualization web application to gather, visualize, and share data tables. 

Points, lines, polygons, customer addresses, place names, countries and more can be mapped in minutes with Fusion Tables. Columns with location data are automatically interpreted.

Google Fusion Maps Tutorial

Examples:

Mapping the riots with poverty