info: http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/arms-visualization/ link to site: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/armsglobe/ github: https://github.com/dataarts/armsglobe
Looks like it has been updated for 2011 data here as well as a new weapon type 'unclassified'
edit: almost forgot, here's a great writeup by Michael Chang on the project http://mflux.tumblr.com/post/28367579774/armstradeviz
The relationship between Thailand and Europe, and say .. Australia and Europe, over the last 2 decades, to my naive thinking, really shows details of clear product demand/response according to world incidents.
It'd be interesting to be able to overlay War/Conflict Data on top, body-count stats, and a few other relevant data of the world, to see how all this is tied to a market reality.
Perhaps we, the people, need to do our own data-mining.
We actually have hard data on this, thanks to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Instant_Criminal_Backg...), we're going on something like 30+ months where each month's sales are greater than the same month's a year previously. I can get details, or e.g. check out the NSSF's reporting on this (the real gun manufacturer's association).
It is hard to tell where the lines lead, so I need to rotate the globe. Also for European nations, it is very messy because some of the countries are tiny and all trade with each other. There is also no way to see arms trade over time, which would have been quite useful since the data has a time-series.
Very pretty looking 3D graphic though.
It is nice as a demonstration on how the web may look like in 3 years, but personally I prefer tables and graphs when viewing statistics. Has anyone seen a link to a “classic” view?
