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WikiLeaks drops 90,000 war docs; fingers Pakistan as insurgent ally

Turns out “ Collateral Murder ” was just a warmup. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/wikileaks-drops-90000-war-docs-fingers-pakistan-as-insurgent-ally.ars
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary, an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010 - WikiLeaks

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010
The Afghan War documents leak is the disclosure of a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan , also called the Afghan War Diary , which were published by Wikileaks on 25 July 2010. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The logs consist of 91,731 documents, covering the period between January 2004 and December 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak

Afghan War Diary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jul/27/wikileaks-afghanistan-data-datajournalism Wikileaks Afghanistan data: click image for the graphic.

how our datajournalism operation worked | News | guardian.co.uk

Declan Walsh | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/declanwalsh 15 Dec 2011: After seven tumultuous years reporting from Pakistan, Guardian correspondent Declan Walsh reflects on the inspiring figures, the jaw-dropping landscapes, the deep corruption – and the day the Taliban came to town
4 Apr 2012: Richard Norton-Taylor: Plans to prevent any MI5 or MI6 intelligence being disclosed in court may please the spooks, but should spook the rest of us http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/richardnortontaylor

Richard Norton-Taylor | guardian.co.uk

Visualising Data » Blog Archive » Visualising the Wikileak’s war logs using Tableau Public

Further to yesterday’s post about the Wikileaks Afghanistan War Logs, the Guardian datablog has published a post today describing how their data journalism operation worked. http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2010/07/visualising-the-wikileaks-war-logs-using-tableau-public/
There is nothing more powerful than good data and strong storytellers. http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/blog/2010/07/afghanistan-casualty-visualization

Visualizing the Wikileaks Afghanistan Casualty Data | Tableau Public

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/wikileaks-war-data-visualizations/61233/

WikiLeaks War Data Visualizations - Science and Tech - The Atlantic

When the WikiLeaks war data was released last month, the best visualizations of the data came from the three newspapers that received it early.

Ekstra Bladet - Warlogs

http://ekstrabladet.dk/indsigt/warlogs-1/ På kortet kan du se alle de lækkede krigs-rapporter fra Afghanistan, som mandag den 26. juli blev offentliggjort på hjemmesiden WikiLeaks . Zoom ind og læs de enkelte rapporter på det interaktive Google-kort herunder.

Motion Média team timeline AFG War Diary

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By Drew Conway, on August 7th, 2010 Below is a visualization of the Wikileaks data produced in collaboration with Michael Dewar .

Wikileaks Attack Data by Year and Type Projected on Afghanistan Regional Map « Zero Intelligence Agents

It’s one thing to read about individual Taliban attacks in WikiLeaks’ trove of war logs .

Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown (Updated) | Danger Room | Wired.com

The last 72 hours or has been fairly crazy in the land of Visualising Data, with some notable visualisation stories and discussions popping up in various news and media channels. Firstly, on Sunday, the Wikileaks organisation picked up on my Tableau visualisations post and tweeted a URL to my site which led to visitor and page view counts going through the roof. Then on Monday, Wired magazine’s Danger Room section did a piece entitled “ Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown ” which also featured my tableau visualisations alongside those of NYU political science Ph.D. student Drew Conway .

Visualising Data » Blog Archive » Visualisation in the news

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