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The data being from Wikidata, another way to read the density of battles on the map as the amount of historical information we have about every region of the wo
by halflings 11y ago
The data being from Wikidata, another way to read the density of battles on the map as the amount of historical information we have about every region of the world (at least, the information available on Wikipedia)
Unfortunately, large parts of the history of countries like Morocco was lost, and of what was written a very small portion is actually on Wikipedia. (in contrast with Europe, the US, etc. who have more contributors)
- agentgt 11y agoI had the same thoughts as well particularly Africa and South America. I also think it would have been interesting instead of using color for dates maybe use color for size of battle (based on casualties or something similar).
- ivanhoe 11y agoand even that data is highly unreliable, for instance if you zoom on post-war Europe (after 1952) one of dots is antic Battle of Bedriacum (which happened in year 56, but BC)
- nodegoat 11y agoThis is true. Especially for the data we got through dbpedia, even though we tried to clean this somewhat. See our blog post on this: http://nodegoat.net/blog.s/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of-violence http://nodegoat.net/blog.s/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of...