Maps Of Refugees

Activists create interactive map of the Srebrenica killings

Young people in the Balkans have created an interactive map of Europe's worst massacre since World War II.  The map and audio-visual presentations are about the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, where thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed by Serbian forces in 1995.  The Internet initiative comes as Europe prepares to remember next month what is known as the Srebrenica Massacre.   But soon, familiar faces appear, including those of former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and his wartime commander, Ratko Mladic.  Both men are accused of ordering Serbian troops to kill as many as 8,000 Muslim men and boys after they overran the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian War, following the break up of Yugoslavia.  "We want this website to become part of the alternative educational world and particularly for the future generation in the Balkan region as the future decision makers in this area.  So once when they understand what had happened here in the 1990s, that they, when they come in the position of decision makers again, will do anything that is in their power to prevent such horrible things to ever happening again," she stated.    He says he was not shot, but that he fell to the ground and that a man fell on him.  When the shooting stopped, he says a Serb soldier asked whether anyone was still alive.  He recalls that a man said "Yes, I am alive" and that another man said "Me, why don't you shoot me?"  The witness says the soldier then pulled the trigger. "We were very happy to see according to our statistics that 46 downloads were happening in Rwanda as well.  We are hoping that we will receive some response from our colleagues from Rwanda, hoping that they might consider this educational tool as a possibility for them to map their own genocide.  That really shouldn't remain forgotten and should be really raised up [to a] higher level," she said. Next on her group's agenda is helping to construct an online interactive museum about life during the siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.  Masic says that website should be online by early next year.  Also in the works is a high-tech museum in Sarajevo that is expected to open in May when the city remembers the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the 44-month siege by Serb forces, that killed at least 10,000 people. The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.

Data Deconstructed – Refugee Statistics | Romy Misra

Today’s post uses this data set – UNHCR 2011 Refugee Statistics . I found this analyzed the day before on one of my favorite data journalism blogs: the UK Guardian .

I’m going to take a different approach with a data set today:Instead of coming up with questions and then figuring out the answers,I will take you through my ideas on data visualization on a data set already analyzed by someone else. I will answer the same questions as the Guardian did in their analysis,with my take on it. This is not to critique what they have done,they have of course done an awesome job but to bring to light of how I would have  done it (hard to do now that I have read the answers!). I would first recommend reading the Guardian post –it’s a short one.

Note:There is usually no wrong or right with what you can show with a data set –just different things you can bring to light.

About the data set –This data was set released by the UN Refugee Agency and is super interesting. A line about the UNHCR –it’s broad (and amazing) mission is to protect refugees worldwide. This data set has information about a) Where all the refugees currently are b) Where they come from c) Very interesting context –host country capacities,settlements and camps,inflows in 10 spreadsheets.

The questions –Like always,let’s first try and understand what the Guardian wants to uncover.

Their post is basically answering two questions:

1. Where do the all refugees come from?

Process: So now let’s solve this my way -

1. Where do all the refugees come from?

This is fairly straightforward. The way I would explore this data subset is juxtaposing it against a world map.  The colors in the map are proportional to the number,the darker the orange –the greater the # of refugees. Not surprising,the darkest is Afghanistan. As usual,click on the “Click to Interact”to play with it.

Let’s compare it to what the Guardian did . The Guardian did it pretty much the same way,they used a different tool –Google fusion maps. If you look carefully –The only difference here is that if you hover over their map you cannot see the data labels –the number of refugees or the name of the countries. If your geography is as bad mine in recognizing all the countries –this is not extremely useful to understand the complete data set. The labels are only visible when you zoom out and the color shadings are replaced by bubbles.