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Recently, SAS helped with a 'mapping the nation' project, creating the 
gradient blue maps and interface used here:

mappingthenation.net

I noticed that in that website's infographics section, they also had
the following fancier map:

http://mappingthenation.net/pdfs/infographic-jobs.pdf
http://mappingthenation.net/images/infographic-national-jobstiedtotrade.png
http://mappingthenation.net/infographics.html
http://mappingthenation.net/

I didn't like several things about the infographic, so I created my own
(ie, the sas map in this example).  Here are some things I didn't like 
about the original infographic (and hopefully fixed in mine):

The biggest problem was that the blue/white pies were not to the same
scale as the yellow/orange one. This compromises the data-integrity 
of the map.  I was going to create them to the same scale (and using
the same colors), but they would have been so tiny that they would 
have been insignificant specks ... so I totally left them out.

The orange pie slice was at various different angles in the different
pies, making it hard to compare them (I assume they did this to make
room for the labels?) I made the orange slice start at the 12 o'clock
position, and I leave off the crowded text (I use mouse-over text instead).

The table of all 50+ states on the left was difficult to read.  In my version
I add html mouse-over text with the state name and # of jobs. I also added
a drilldown link for each state, that shows similar data by county.

I also added a drilldown link along the bottom logo/banner, to easily
take people to the mappingthenation.net web page.

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