I'm a visual kind of guy, so I pulled those travel stats into Google Docs:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqzimL8-eYhYdDdkcC1...
The chart sheet has a graph of total miles traveled. Compare to US population:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqzimL8-eYhYdDdkcC1...
The chart sheet has a graph of total miles traveled. Compare to US population:
If Google Docs can take an arbitrary page, figure out what the data is and slurp it into a spreadsheet, then there are some very interesting kinds of data mashups to make!
However, you can just cut-and-paste a traditional HTML table into Google Docs, and in most cases, it works exactly as you'd expect. Automating that is left as an exercise to the reader. :)