Although data visualisation is a relatively new phenomenon, it can be used to great effect when helping us understand historical events. A case in point is The Fallen of World War II.

This 18-minute online documentary was written, directed, coded and narrated by data-viz expert and documentary maker Neil Halloran with music and sound by Andy Dollerson.

Using publicly available data on second World War casualties, mostly sourced from a Wikipedia article and postwar statistics from the Uppsala Conflict Data Programme, Halloran has brought the past to life and imbued flat statistics it with a sense of humanity. The future of storytelling can and should include the clever intertwining of narrative and numbers.

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