Power of Data Visualization

Don't worry, Africa by Mal d'estro

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An interactive map of Mexico's security crisis.

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In 2010, the United States and its allies continued to shift the military focus from Iraq to Afghanistan.

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This infographic made by Gareth Parry from Auckland, New Zealand (He decided to make to make 1 infographic every week). This week is about American Wars.

Legendary Red Army weapons used in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.

The United States has been fighting a war since 1971, and it’s been losing. Which country do you think is most to blame for illegal drug use across the globe?

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Interactive: A timeline of violence 65,000 roadside bombs, thousands of checkpoint shootings: watch the war as it happened with this Flash map.

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Why zip codes have connotations.

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It details how a helicopter delay meant that a British Soldier died in Afghanistan and, rather than have a map and a 3d comic book treatment they did a minute by minute flow chart which highlights the lost time. Not great in itself but nice to get away from the visual cliches. Done for Channel4 News online

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All of the complexity of the Afghan conflict — and all of the bureaucracy NATO used to manage the counterinsurgency effort — was summed up by a single spaghetti monster of a PowerPoint slide. "When we understand [it]," war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal joked when he saw the slide, "we’ll have won the war."