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.

In a victory for transparency & reproducibility, they also distribute their source code as well (in R (via github.com)) so you can try this at home.