09 November 2010

Each pixel represents a death in Iraq

Canadian Kamel Makhloufi created these graphs depicting deaths in Iraq since the onset of the war.

The bright blue are U.S. soldiers.  The green are Iraqi troops.  The gray at the bottom are enemies.

The orange are civilians.

The graph on the left with the sigma at the top shows the total deaths for each group.  On the right, labelled "t," are the pixels ordered by time, with the first deaths at the top.  I think it's interesting how the gray dots are clustered at the top and in a couple other sequences.  Other than that...

More information here and here, via The Daily Dish.

Addendum:  I'm not sure how the data for the graphs above compare to U.S. official figures, which were cited at Salon last month:

In its most extensive death tally of the Iraq war, the U.S. military says nearly 77,000 Iraqi civilians and security officials were killed from early 2004 to mid-2008 -- a toll that falls well below Iraqi government figures.

The military's count, which spans the bloodiest chapter of Iraq's sectarian warfare and the U.S. troop surge to quell it, is short of the 85,694 figure released last year by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry that covers early 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008.
Although the ratios look to be similar:
In all, the U.S. data tallied 76,939 Iraqi security officials and civilians killed and 121,649 wounded between January 2004 and August 2008. The count shows 3,952 American and other U.S.-allied international troops were killed over the same period.

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