Picturing the Global Small-Arms Trade

This story actually presents two interesting and important phenomena at once: the small-arms trade and visualization technology. Putting together an interactive map of the former exposed some surprising truths about which countries are more active in the import and export of small arms. At the same time, it showed how using the latter makes subjects and information more accessible and easily digestible (for another example of this, see http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/08/we-all-want-to-change-world.html): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23822086