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11 Aug 2010 | 11:23 EST

Afghanistan / Wikileaks visualized (Data Viz + Open Source FTW)

Posted by chris wiggins | Categories: Uncategorized

NYC’s own Drew Conway (grad student @ NYU) Mike Dewar (postdoc @ Columbia) put together a visualization of the recent trove of data released by wikileaks.org about Afghanistan. The work was picked up by Wired.com this week in a post titled Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown and also featured in the Atlantic.  Read more

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