Data & Stuff // Neil Houston

For those interested in Data Visualisation, you might be interested in the SameAs event that myself and a few colleagues attended.  Some of the videos are online:

Alastair Dant (Recommended!)
Head of Interactive Development at The Guardian
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21911927

Mark Graham
Geomapping expert
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21886943

Andrew Walkingshaw
Co-founder of Timetric
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21856570

Brock Craft
Research Fellow at the London Knowledge Lab
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21912974

Thomas Down
Creator of the genome browser Dalliance
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21914592

Noah Iliinsky
Co-author of Beautiful Visualisation
http://vimeo.com/channels/sameas#21914387

Data has been released (leaked) to Wikileaks, which contains information regarding engagements that have occured during the Afghan war. I’ve produced a visualisation, showing which of these engagements involved a friendly/civilian/enemy being killed in action [KIA]

These make up a smaller proportion of the data than one first might expect, but are still significant [other incidents may involve arrests, IED detection, engagements that didn't result in a KIA].

This is a map of Afghanistan, showing the regions the incidents occured (by colour), the size of the mark denotes the scale of the KIA count, whilst the shape of the mark shows who the attack was on.

Take a look at it ‘full screen’ for more ease of use, hovering over individual points will give you some details, as well as the fact you can filter by how many people were killed in the incident, and filter down to what type of incident.

Some other more detailed analysis was conducted by the Guardian (amongst others), who had pre-release access to the data. Further information on the data can be found on Wikileaks – Afgham War Diary. This visualisation was created using Tableau Desktop, and published to Tableau Public.

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