Here's an info-map of the increasing violence in Baghdad after the end of "major combat operations," four years into the Iraq War. You can click to see which areas are ethnically Sunni, Shia, or mixed. Link (Thanks, dallas)
Reader comment: Richard Podkolinski says,
I've been studying counterinsurgency operations in Iraq for the University of Leiden and the Clingendael Institute of International Relations in the Hague for roughly two years. The project is a geographical analysis comparing Coalition operations to attacks against civilians.
I'd like to point out a major problem with the BBC Interactive Baghdad map. While it looks pretty, with its points, the data they use, namely "Iraqi Body Count" doesn't contain sufficient information to create such a map. Less than 60% of the Iraqi Body Count data on Baghdad is at the neighborhood level. The remaining 40% is simply recorded as "Baghdad", and is non-descript as to where specifically in Baghdad an attack occured. Within that 60% the majority relates to neighborhoods not to specific places, meaning there is no way to place points.
Simply put, unless BBC went and checked each of the attacks in Baghdad and got a specific location, the map is incorrect. Since the data simply is not there to achieve it.
