Wikileaks Attack Data by Year and Type Projected on Afghanistan Regional Map

Below is a visualization of the Wikileaks data produced in collaboration with Michael Dewar. This plot shows attacks in the data set by year and type, projected onto a map of Afghanistan with district boundaries.

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This visualization is certainly not perfect, i.e., some colors are difficult to discern, but it does provide added insight to the level and location of fighting over six years o the war represented by the data.

R code available here.