Comments on: Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped

By: Radio Head

Radio Head — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:10:36 +0000

That is just a grim visualization, and quite more disconcerting when you map it out in the span of half a decade.

By: Nathan Yau

Nathan Yau — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:09:32 +0000

@Francis – you should appreciate this guest post from the Guardian:

http://flowingdata.com/2010/07.....-guardian/

By: Nathan Yau

Nathan Yau — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:12:10 +0000

@Francis – Flash libraries, probably in-house. You might want to check out modest maps.

By: Francis Markham

Francis Markham — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:35:27 +0000

Does anyone know how these spatio-temporal visualisations like the interactive graphic above, or NY-Times celebrated Taxi Flow Map ( http://www.nytimes.com/interac.....i-map.html ) are produced?

By: Afghan War Interactive | joelotz.net

Afghan War Interactive | joelotz.net — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:56:38 +0000

[...] War. This is a post on politics – so I just want to say that one of my favorite sites, FlowingData, has recently pointed to an interactive at The Guardian. What makes this interactive awesome is how [...]

By: Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:00:43 +0000

Like Andy K, I’ve also done my take on the data:
http://bit.ly/bNVyBO

It’s a pretty good dataset with lots of rich potential in it! I modelled my Tableau version on the Guardian’s interactive version – making it an exercise in seeing how easy it is to do in Tableau what one can do with some whizzy graphics package. Conclusion? It’s easy!

By: Andy Kirk

Andy Kirk — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:22:23 +0000

Currently developing some Tableau visualisations for this data: http://www.visualisingdata.com.....au-public/