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A Case Study of Infographics for National Defense - Focusing on the Datajournalism of Afghanistan War in Guardian

국방분야에서 인포그래픽 적용사례 연구 - 영(英) 가디언지 아프가니스탄전 데이터저널리즘을 중심으로

  • Kim, Dong Hwan (Dept. of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy)
  • Received : 2014.05.12
  • Accepted : 2014.10.27
  • Published : 2014.10.31
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Abstract

Recently, Big Data is a buzzword in the creative economy generation. The organizations related to spatial information society focus on building the spatial big data systems. As spatial big data is a combination of spatial information and big data, the data visualization is essential in order to utilize them efficiently. One of the great methodologies for data visualization is infographics. Nationally, Chousn.com initiated the infographics news in 2010. Korean Administration Branches also recognized the importance of infographic and they adopted infographics for their briefings from 2013. Internationally, Visual.ly is leading company in the infographics market and they produced noticeable interactive infographics for Egypt Parliamentary Elections results. In the defense part, Guardian's datajournalism of Afghanistan war log was a good example of utilizing infographics. Throughout the research, five requirements are extracted. First source data should have precision and accuracy in terms of time and space manner. Second, infographics images have a compressibility. Third, the infographics is properly processed for military commanders. Fourth, sharing, openness and communication are essential for high quality infographic. Lastly, infographics should be an analytic tool for predicting future event based on the past data. Infographics is not a direct representation of data but an analytic tool for helping user's choice and decision in critical moments.

최근 창조경제 시대를 맞이하여 급부상하는 단어가 바로 빅데이터이다. 이에 따라 공간정보 관련 기관들도 공간빅데이터체계를 구축하기 위해 노력하고 있다. 공간빅데이터는 공간정보와 빅데이터가 결합한 형태로써 사용자들이 효율적으로 이해하기 위해서 데이터 시각화 기술이 필수적이다. 최근 데이터 시각화 기술 중에 떠오르는 분야는 바로 인포그래픽이다. 국내에서는 조선닷컴이 2010년 8월부터 인포그래픽 뉴스를 서비스하고 있다. 대한민국 정부도 2013년 정부 부처 업무보고를 시작으로 인포그래픽을 선도적으로 활용하고 있다. 외국 인포그래픽 업체 Visual.ly의 경우 이집트 의원선거 결과를 인터랙티브 인포그래픽을 이용하여 직관적이고 효과적으로 데이터를 시각화했다. 국방분야 인포그래픽 가운데 영국 가디언지가 2010년에 발표한 아프가니스탄 전쟁 관련 인포그래픽을 완성도가 높은 데이터 시각화의 형태로 볼 수 있다. 가디언지가 제작한 인포그래픽을 연구한 결과 국방분야 인포그래픽이 갖추어야 할 5가지 조건을 도출하였다. 첫째, 원천 데이터는 시공간적으로 정확성을 갖추고 있어야 한다. 둘째, 인포그래픽의 이미지는 정보를 압축하여 담고 있어야 한다. 셋째, 인포그래픽은 지휘관을 위해 가공된 정보를 제공해야 한다. 넷째, 질 높은 인포그래픽 생산을 위해 공유과 개방, 소통이 필수적이다. 다섯째, 과거의 자료를 토대로 정보를 생산하고 미래의 사건을 예측할 수 있는 분석적 도구로써의 인포그래픽이 되어야 한다. 인포그래픽은 데이터를 직역하여 보여주는 것이 아닌 사용자의 판단과 결심을 돕는 분석적 도구로써 사용되어야 할 것이다.

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