Learn A Novel Trend To Visualize The Global Arms Trade

Did yous know that sixty pct of all trigger-happy deaths are due to modest arms as well as lite weapons? Small arms, such every bit revolvers, onrush rifles as well as lite car guns, as well as ammunition stand upwardly for a multi-billion dollar industry, as well as 3 quarters of the world’s modest arms prevarication inwards the mitt of civilians—more than 650 meg civilian arms. As role of the Google Ideas inaugural on illicit networks, we’ve created an interactive information visualization of global modest arms as well as ammunition trading to amend empathise as well as map the global arms trade.

The tool was produced past times Google’s Creative Lab squad inwards collaboration alongside the INFO summit hosted past times Google Ideas final month:

You tin explore these information points past times zooming inwards as well as out of the globe, clicking on whatever province to readjust the view, as well as using the histogram tool at the bottom to encounter trading patterns over the years. You tin see, for example, that the scale of the global merchandise inwards ammunition rivals the scale of merchandise inwards actual weapons, an insight underexplored past times policymakers today inwards conflict prevention as well as resolution.

We built this visualization using the opened upwardly root WebGL Globe on Google’s Chrome Experiments site; since it is opened upwardly sourced, nosotros promise to encounter others utilization the globe every bit a platform for bringing other complex datasets to life.

Update 8/16/12: This postal service has been updated to reverberate to a greater extent than accurate numbers.

Posted past times Scott Carpenter, Deputy Director, Google Ideas