This was originally done by the Google Data Arts team.<p>info: <a href="http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/arms-visualization/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/arms-visualization/</a> link to site: <a href="http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/armsglobe/" rel="nofollow">http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/armsglobe/</a> github: <a href="https://github.com/dataarts/armsglobe" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dataarts/armsglobe</a><p>Looks like it has been updated for 2011 data here as well as a new weapon type 'unclassified'<p>edit: almost forgot, here's a great writeup by Michael Chang on the project <a href="http://mflux.tumblr.com/post/28367579774/armstradeviz" rel="nofollow">http://mflux.tumblr.com/post/28367579774/armstradeviz</a>
What fascinates me most about these data is a single data point: Thailand.<p>The relationship between Thailand and Europe, and say .. Australia and Europe, over the last 2 decades, to my naive thinking, really shows details of clear product demand/response according to world incidents.<p>It'd be interesting to be able to overlay War/Conflict Data on top, body-count stats, and a few other relevant data of the world, to see how all this is tied to a market reality.<p>Perhaps we, the people, need to do our own data-mining.
Here is the BBC coverage of the tool:
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23822086" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23822086</a>
Almost every country is covered, very interesting data, You can follow up who is connected to what.
And timetable provides very interesting picture how countries under imminent treat imports arms.