Description
New York Times Op-Chart series on Iraq casualties, created by Alicia Cheng (graphic designer and co-founder of MGMT. design) with Adriana Lins de Albuquerque (a Columbia political science doctoral student). The series ran from 2005 to 2011 under titles including "14 Days in Iraq," "31 Days in Iraq," "A Year in Iraq," and "A Year in Iraq and Afghanistan." The infographics detail the types and locations of casualties in Iraq using pictorial symbols to represent individual casualties. The use of symbolic pictorial language — where each symbol represents a fixed quantity — connects modern data journalism to the ISOTYPE (International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) tradition dating back to 1920s Vienna.
