Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death | News | guardian.co.uk

Update to my 10/21/2010 post.

At least the Guardian is being marginally more responsible than WikiLeaks. They are not publishing the "summary field" from the data, in an effort to protect people from reprisal.  They used Google Fusion Tables to map the locations where people were reported killed.

Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death | News | guardian.co.uk:

"Data journalism works best when there's a lot of data to work with. Wikileaks' Iraq war logs release has dumped some 391,000 records of the Iraq war into the public arean. We've had them for a few weeks - what have we found out?

This is in a different league to the Wikileaks Afghanistan leak - there's a good case for saying the new release has made the war the most documented in history. Every minor detail is now there for us to analyse and breakdown but one factor stands out: the sheer volume of deaths, most of which are civilians." 

From WikiLeaks Greatest Hits, Collateral Lies:




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The Blogoscoped site carries news that Google has purchased a German 'Microdrone' for evaluation (here is the original German version). These devices can take off, fly a mission, and land automatically using GPS. They can carry night-vision cameras or even 'see-through-walls' Far IR cameras. Of course, the maker of these drones assures us that they cannot be a 'Big Brother in the sky' because that is 'verboten.' Is it just me, or is Google entering dangerous airspace here? It seems like the ruckus from a backyard-after-dark addition to Street View could completely overshadow the legal tussles Google has already encountered with its street-level photography.'

Reader Jaymi clues us to another airborne effort a couple of Google employees are mounting with some help from NASA Ames: the NexusOne PhoneSat project — to determine if low-cost mobile phone components can withstand space travel.

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Hello everybody!  Thank you for visiting.

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John and I have been working on a map for Suki I:

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Looked like it worked in preview. Had some trouble with it over at Google. Kept opening zoomed in too close and I had to click the "-" button a lot just to get an image.

The map has just about every location mentioned in the book and some that are only mentioned, for now, in the character bios at SukiSite.

Added the blogs of people mentioned in the book, should appear in my profile.

Publishing Update: John submitted the manuscript for Copyright Registration today. He already has an ISBN block and will be publishing on Amazon Kindle. It will also be available in PDF and XPS formats for non-Kindle users. Price for the over 600 page book (paperback form factor, electronic) should be around $6.69 in all three formats. No final decision yet on where to distribute non-Kindle.

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