Combining data visualization and video, Neil Halloran created The Fallen of World War II . The interactive documentary discusses the deaths of WWII and other wars since. The video runs 18 minutes and 16 seconds including credits. Viewers have a choice of the interactively visualizing data which requires a current computer or the video which plays on most devices. Both present the same information. The difference is the interactive has points in which you can pause and examine the data more depth if you choose. The video is laced with photos and icons transforming from one chart into another.

Visualizing data gives the viewer a better understanding of not only the death of soldiers but civilians during WWII and later wars. It explains how many died from which countries in a powerful bar chart that one comment describes as “hit(ing) closer to the heart” than the numbers themselves.

With the highest causality count in history, the video explains that proportionately WWII’s death rate may not be as significant of a number due to the larger population worldwide.

It concludes by going into the wars since WWII, detailing which countries fought, the number of years each conflict lasted, death totals by year and the type of battle: civil, civil with foreign intervention, interstate or colonial.

Sad reality of human history is that wars have been part of if at every stage. XX century was no exception. The most brutal and devastating wars took place during 1900s. The following war casualties data visualization plots war related death figures on this interactive chart where poppy symbolizes war victims. This creative data analytics viz, named the Great Field, is brought you by Poppyfield.org - a web-site fully dedicated to this data display. The site opens with an explanation of poppy’s symbolism relative to wars.

After introductory 4 screens, viewers can visualize casualty figures which relate to various wars that took place in the XX century. Poppy sizes corresponding to the number of war victims convey a sad story of enormous life losses during various military conflicts. You can use filtering tools to focus on certain periods, continents or number of casualties by war in this data visualization.