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Would You Tame Data from Wikileaks?

15 December 2010
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Would you map the data from Wikileaks’ release of US Embassy Cables? If so — what would you show, and how would you show it?
For example, Mark Graham of Zero Geography visualized some of the data from Cablegate, using The Guardian online’s data store.
He blogged the following on November 28th, 2010; I have put [...]

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War Data: Nuclear Explosions 1945-1998

29 October 2010
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How would you visualize over 2000 nuclear explosions since 1945?
Artist Isao Hashimoto created a video time-lapse that shows the 2053 nuclear tests and explosions between 1945-1998. North Korea’s two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 are not included in the time lapse. If you’d like to view an interactive map of nuclear testing that [...]

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War Data: Willingness to Fight

28 October 2010
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How willing would you be to fight in a war? Might your willingness to fight be based on which country you call home?
The answer to the second question is, “yes”.
Citizens of superpowers and war torn nations have little interest in fighting a war. However, some citizens of war torn countries are quite happy to [...]

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War Data: the Hidden Cost ($$$) of War

27 October 2010
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Can you estimate the true cost of war? What variables do you use? Is the cost of war only the salaries of the troops and the equipment they use? Should the cost estimates include lifetime medical care for injured troops? What about rebuilding the nation with which you are at war (assuming you win)? Do [...]

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War Data: Visualization of Afghanistan Hotspots Using Wikileaks Data

26 October 2010
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How would you take a data set released by Wikileaks and visualize it to see activity in Afghanistan over time? As part of this week’s theme of war data, I present a visualization based on leaked war data.
Mike Dewar, Drew Conway, John Myles White, and Harlan Harris used R code (the scripts, etc., are available [...]

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War Data: a Short Profile of WikiLeaks

25 October 2010
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What happens when your data is leaked online? What happens when that data contradicts the official reports of a powerful government? What happens if that data is about a war, and the war is currently being fought?
Welcome to Wikileaks — an online site used by journalists and whistleblowers that provides public access to very private [...]

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