Deathline is a data visualization project that details the immense number of drone strikes enacted by the United States' govenment in the Middle East from November 2002 to March 2017 utilizing realtime datasets from Dronestre.am.
This project was created in collaboration with David Fan.
Involvement: Coding in Processing (Java-based)
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People in this day and age are often immersed in a virtual world rather than the world we live in. This virtual world we create for our selves is an illusion of beauty and euphoria, choosing what we want to see, what information is perceived and ignoring the strife happening in the real world.
Deathline is a data-driven art piece that combats this virtual 'shield' and allows viewers to better understand real-world problems in a virtual world space. Using the dataset of the United States drone strikes in the Middle East from November 2002 to March 2017, Deathline allows for an accurate visual model of the data as opposed to just looking at a list of locations and numbers. The dataset used provided real location, date, number of civilians, and number of deaths recorded for each drone strike in the given time period which is mapped accordingly using sound and size to represent their impact.
Deathline was featured in Kaleidoscope Magazine's second edition print in December 2018. A digital archive of the full publication is accessible online here.
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