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.