Since WikiLeaks released the massive war data last month, several people have been scouring and slaving over it in hopes of discerning some noticable patterns in the numbers. A few people have taken it and managed to create some rather eye-catching visuals, such as Danish newspaper ‘Extra Bladet’ who has mapped 70,000 of the records as shown above. But they’re not the only one:
Wired’s Noah Shachtman points to one such series of maps compiled by Drew Conway, a New York University political science graduate student. Using open source statistical tools, Conway mapped the spread of reported combat by year (below). “The results are unnerving, like stop-motion photography of a freeway wreck,” Shachtman wrote. He also linked to some interesting illustrations at Visualizing Data.
via WikiLeaks War Data Visualizations – Science and Tech – The Atlantic. (thx to ebruhwiler)
