CNN's Interactive Map and Timeline of Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties "Home and Away"

Posted: 28 May 2010 04:50 PM PDT

Via Flowing Data and CNN

Nathan Yau, of Flowing Data, posted information and a link to CNN's interactive Casualties: Home and Away website. This website allows you to visually explore the casualty statistics of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning with the first of the fallen in 2001. You can zoom into a region and see pictures and names of people. The website provides a way for friends and family to share memories about their loved ones.

Home and Away also provides a "list view" option, shown in one of the pictures below. Visitors to the site can sort by name or year of death. Sliders on the map view provide a way of looking at the pattern of deaths over time. It is sad, but this website makes us remember that war is real. Deaths are not simply statistics.