{"id":1149,"date":"2017-03-04T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T01:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2017-03-06T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:17:05","slug":"the-middle-east-key-players-and-notable-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/03\/04\/the-middle-east-key-players-and-notable-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle East: Key Players and notable relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interactive network visualization sheds light on the complex relationship between the different countries in the Middle East. Anyone willing to understand the relationship between these countries can have a good overview of the political situation in the Middle East. This visualization focuses on four different relationship factors: \u2018love\u2019, \u2018hate\u2019 ,\u2019good\u2019, \u2019strained\u2019. At a first glance, the visualization seems to be overcrowded and clumsy, but it also provides a lot of factors for drilling down and filtering.<\/p>\n<p>Things I liked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Depicting the relationship with an interactive network graph is excellent.<\/li>\n<li>Filtering on the basis or Country or group which helps the audience to have a better understanding of the position of each country. Hovering or clicking on each country provides the filtering.<\/li>\n<li>Filtering on the basis of the relationship types.<\/li>\n<li>A short description pops up providing details of the relation between two countries when one country is selected and other is hovered\u00a0upon.<\/li>\n<li>The use of different color and line type in depicting different relationships helps identify them easily when a particular country is selected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Room for improvement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The visualization also distinguishes the entity based on whether it is a country or group. But the colors used for \u2018Group\u2019 and \u2018Non-Muslim\u2019 has little difference. Also, there are no means of filtering on basis of this. So, it becomes ambiguous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/the-middle-east-key-players-notable-relationships\/\">http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/the-middle-east-key-players-notable-relationships\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interactive network visualization sheds light on the complex relationship between the different countries in the Middle East. Anyone willing to understand the relationship between these countries can have a good overview of the political situation in the Middle East. This visualization focuses on four different relationship factors: \u2018love\u2019, \u2018hate\u2019 ,\u2019good\u2019, \u2019strained\u2019. At a first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/2017\/03\/04\/the-middle-east-key-players-and-notable-relationships\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Middle East: Key Players and notable relationships<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"sghosh","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/author\/sghosh\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/dataviz\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"This interactive network visualization sheds light on the complex relationship between the different countries in the Middle East. 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