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This isn't very interesting. This is just showing who makes the most weapons. It would be more interesting to see where those weapons go.
by nsxwolf 7y ago
This isn't very interesting. This is just showing who makes the most weapons. It would be more interesting to see where those weapons go.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThis is what I was expecting honestly. I assume a good chunk to America, another chunk to other countries with "2nd Ammendment" like rights, or at least where it's legal to own guns for hunting. Edit: Another interesting bit of information would show which guns by type, company, how many they create and what have you.
- vorpalhex 7y agoI believe this is more bombs and heavy weaponry than light arms.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoOh I see that now. Its not very obvious at first glance what is being illustrated.
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoThat's why Belgium is so low on the list.
- najarvg 7y agoThe visualization is driven by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) database and it tracks only what is calls "major weapons" (see section 3 in https://sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/sources-and-methods https://sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/sources-and-method...). So small guns or similar arms will not be covered. Also, I have not checked the dataset yet, but from the description, a chord diagram of source and destination nations could probably be plotted from the SIPRI database. Would make for a good spare-time dataviz project!