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http://dx.doi.org/10.12672/ksis.2014.22.5.043

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

Kim, Dong Hwan (Dept. of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Korea Military Academy)
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Spatial Information Research / v.22, no.5, 2014 , pp. 43-52 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Infographics; Big Data; Data Visualization; Wikileaks' Afghanistan War Log; Interactive Infographics;
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