Wikileaks Iraq : data journalism maps every death | World news | theguardian.com
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Signalé ce matin par Alain Gresh, ce billet effrayant sur les victimes de la guerre en Irak. Le billet semble dater de 2010, mais je n’en suis pas tout à fait sur. Je l’avais raté.
Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death
Data journalism allows us to really interrogate the Wikileaks Iraq war logs release. Here is the statistical breakdown - and data for you to download
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Wikileaks Iraq: a man holds his wounded daughter outside in August 2006 after being injured in road side bomb explosion. Photograph: Ali Abbas/EPA
UPDATE: an academic who has worked with the data has pointed out some of its limitations.
▻http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/oct/25/wikileaks-iraq-data?guni=Graphic:in%20body%20link
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 arena. 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.
