There’s a CNN memorial interactive site that maps out the war casualties from all over the world for the Afghanistan and Iraq War.
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html
Image Source: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/05/home_away_comparing_how_the_lives_of_troops_began_and_ended.html
It basically takes the data they have and provides the visual representation of it. It kind of reminded me of what I would probably see in a movie when there’s a disease outbreak spreading across the country. Each dot on the map on the right side represents the casualties in the specific locations. One can filter out certain demographics (age, location, date (month/year) ranges) to scope down what is being visualized on the screen. The bigger the dot, the more casualties were involved. Hovering over the dot, you can actually get the province / area name and the total number of casualties.
Clicking on it shows a profile of the individual including a description of their unit and a description of the incident of what happened or if more there was more than one individual, a name list of the casualties. On the left, it will then highlight on the map of the area(s) in the world where the individual(s) are originally from. The social part that CNN integrates into this is how one can share memories of the person by logging in and leaving their messages.
I found this a clever way in remembering soldiers who came together to fight this war allowing the possibility to actually have a perspective of where these soldiers are from and providing the connection in understanding their story. How do you feel about this?
