This morning I discovered an interesting data set

Historical Data About Every Reported United States Drone Strike

from http://dronestre.am/



THIS DATA WAS ACCESSED 8/31/2013

So I decided to make some quick visualizations using Google api.

The Data can be downloaded in JSON format and looks like this:



Parse out the coordinates of each strike using ruby:



Heat Maps



Accumulate strike totals by country:



Pie Chart By Country



Code to display the date of a strike, and its attributes; deaths, civilians, injuries, and children.



Reported US Drone Strikes 2012 – 2013 stacked chart



Entire Time Range of drone.am dataset accessed 8/31/2013