Mexican drug cartel network map

November 9, 2010

Network Visualization / drugs, mexico

I’m not entirely sure what we’re looking at here, other than relationships between Mexican drug cartels. Maybe someone can shed some light on the subject.

uSaPdM — November 9, 2010 at 4:43 am

Mexican ‘mafia’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Familia_Michoacana
Data is probably from Project Coronado..
ObSciGuy — November 9, 2010 at 7:23 am

You could probably send an email or a tweet to the guy named in the lower left corner — Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán — for the full story.
Amy — November 9, 2010 at 8:46 am

This was also featured on http://www.fastcodesign.com, with an explanation of how to read it. Basically it shows the integration between cells of La Michoana and Government agencies, and the amount of information flowing between them:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662638/infographic-of-the-day-the-power-structure-of-a-mexican-drug-cartel

Scary.
- Nathan Yau — November 9, 2010 at 8:58 am
  
  thanks, amy.
songbogong — November 9, 2010 at 9:52 am

How to draw this kind of map?
I wonder these nodes are manually placed?
- Jesse — November 9, 2010 at 10:32 am
  
  The diagram looks sort of like a Gephi mapping, because of the curved network edges.
  
  The layout looks like a force-directed layout with a fish-eye projection… but I’m not sure. =P
songbogong — November 9, 2010 at 10:44 am

Thank you for your comment.
I hope an actionscript version of JUNG, java graph library, or any graph layout engines.
karl — November 14, 2010 at 5:44 am

In the bottom right corner. There is a short explanation.

1. narcotraffickers ← connection → public-servants

2. capacity for arbitrating information