Yesterday’s release detailing sites considered “critical” to the US is of much interest to political scientists. Just who does the US rely on most? A group of us from UCL Geography, Political Science and CASA teamed up to do some data cleaning and mapping of yesterday’s leak and we have produced the map below. It shows the number of sites considered critical in each country. 
Brilliant. It would be fantastic if there were more data to analyze this temporally…as one can probably assume that the number of critical sites are more rationally distributed during Democratic presidencies.
Nice one… very controversial! I’m curious what the sites in China are.
I’m assuming there is or will be the opportunity to map this in more detail. Have to think carefully about the implications of what doing that are, besides the potential for lots of hits! Of course the data is out there and someone will map it, but that’s not necessarily a justification.
@Jess- I don’t think this is a temporal dataset, e.g the “top 100 critical sites of 2009″. I think it’s a one off, though the rationale for determining what’s critical and what’s not is very interesting.
Does this map take into account the fact that some sites may be more ‘critical’ than others? If the information is out there, that would be interesting to see.
I feel a cartogram coming on…
No indication of importance. The folks over at floating sheep have got the specific details: http://www.floatingsheep.org/2010/12/map-of-wikileaks-list-of-facilities.html
Quite dependant on China, are we…
Great map, but why did you split out the US – is that the way the data was compiled (say by state), is it DND (data not defined), etc.? In other words you bumped into the fabled “null issue”, I’m curious to hear what you or they did here…
There was no data from the US….the release only contained sites from other countries.