mike dewar: "visualizing the afghan war diary"
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In July, Wikileaks made available over 70,000 reports from the conflict in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history. These reports, which are incredibly detailed, are available for anyone to download and analyse. This talk is about a group of "hackers" getting together in NYC to do exactly that. Using open source tools, we set out to see what kind of story would unfold from this data. The resulting visualisations received tens of thousands of views in under a week, and depict Afghanistan's 5 year slide back into a country-wide conflict.@mikedewar
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Mike DEWARVisualizing the Afghan War Diary
@mikedewar
“one of the biggest leaks in US military history”
Guardian/Nick Davies and David Leigh
“hackademics”
Harlan Harris
DrewConway
MikeDewar
JohnMyles White
readwriteweb.com/Curt Hopkins
OPEN DATA
OPEN ANALYSIS
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3000
ENEMY ACTIVITY
Pakis
tan
Kabul
Qandahar
“children” “sniper”
2005
2004
intensity of explosive hazard events
2009
intensity of explosive hazard events
vimeo.com/14200191
http://github.com/drewconway/WikiLeaks_Analysis
LIES,DAMN LIES,ANDSTATISTICS
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drewconway.com/zia/
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