👉 6 years ago we made a map trying to explain the Ukraine's war with data. It was an exercise to discover if was possible to explain the conflict using public data from a diversity of sources: UN, OSM, Social Networks…
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datawar.300000.eu
With all this bunch of data we were able to talk about deaths and injuries, attacks and protests, but also about borders and identities, impact on media and political reactions.
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All this maps were placed inside Spazio Ridotto (at @la_Biennale 2016) and published here to be shared with everyone.
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Now, 6 years after, even if the digitization of our world has been growing constantly is not possible to reproduce all this maps.
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We don’t have accessible social networks where we can get images documenting the attacks. Today Flickr use is minority and the other alternatives are not accessible.
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Gdelt project (@gdeltproject) (database with al the media of the world), even if it’s alive, it’s not possible to be accessed easily (without a google bigquery account 🪙🪙🪙)
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Redonbass has disappeared and it’s documentation of the destructions in the military attacks
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Gar15 it’s not more updated (and they don’t have plans to do it…) risk.preventionweb.net
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The UNOCHA reports are the same nightmare if you want to make a semantical analysis. They are provided in pdf… but now they provide also charts (png!!) and maps (png!!) CSV? -> NO!, TXT? -> NO!
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Fortunately OSM it’s an strong project with awesome data. Every day more precise and with more metadata associated to it’s geometries, with all the changes registered, with buildings and crops well documented.
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@Liveuamap it’s a great tool and working hard. Providing real time data from different sources about the activity of the injuries and attacks.
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Understanding and measure the conflict today with data is highly more difficult than 6 years ago. Then…, what can we expect from this war today?
Of course, war is about bombs ans destruction. But above all about misinformation.
datawar.300000.eu
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