The Guardian's Datablog just released an of how they had to deal with the raw data from the recent , a 6-year archive of classified military documents. The New York Times also released a view behind the and the process.

For anyone with an interest in datajournalism, this all makes an interesting read. For instance, with the main goal of making the huge and complex data understandable and navigable for expert journalists with a tight timeframe, Datablog explains in detail how the 92,201 rows of MS Excel data had to be ordered and categorized.

In the meantime, the first War Logs visualizations have appeared:
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Let's hope The New York Times will make the list a bit longer, making such long enumerations a rare exception...

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