New Chicago's Homan Foursquare Detainees

For a piece The Guardian has been investigating the role yesteryear the Chicago Police Department of Homan Square. The Guardian describes the facility every bit "an off-the-books inquiry compound, rendering Americans unable to hold upwards flora yesteryear solid unit of measurement or attorneys piece locked within what lawyers tell is the domestic equivalent of a CIA dark site."

In a novel interactive presentation, Homan Square - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 portrait of Chicago’s detainees, the newspaper has created an impressive visualization breaking downwards the information behind the 7,185 arrests of people taken to Homan Square betwixt five August 2004 too thirty June 2015. Throughout The Guardian's presentation the 7,185 arrests are represented every bit pocket-size portraits. As yous progress through the interactive the portraits are rearranged to exhibit the demographics of those arrested, the type of crimes people were arrested for too the dates of the arrests.

The information portraits are too rearranged to utilisation a map showing where these arrests were made inward Chicago. It is rattling impressive how The Guardian seamlessly rearranges the dots from a nautical chart sentiment into an oblique map sentiment too therefore into a map innovation view. All made possible yesteryear the role of Scalable Vector Graphics.

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