Chicago's Homan Foursquare Detainees

For a field The Guardian has been investigating the role yesteryear the Chicago Police Department of Homan Square. The Guardian describes the facility equally "an off-the-books query compound, rendering Americans unable to locomote flora yesteryear household unit of measurement or attorneys field locked within what lawyers tell is the domestic equivalent of a CIA dark site."

In a novel interactive presentation, Homan Square - H5N1 portrait of Chicago’s detainees, the newspaper has created an impressive visualization breaking downward the information behind the 7,185 arrests of people taken to Homan Square betwixt v August 2004 as well as xxx June 2015. Throughout The Guardian's presentation the 7,185 arrests are represented equally modest portraits. As you lot progress through the interactive the portraits are rearranged to demo the demographics of those arrested, the type of crimes people were arrested for as well as the dates of the arrests.

The information portraits are too rearranged to exercise a map showing where these arrests were made inwards Chicago. It is really impressive how The Guardian seamlessly rearranges the dots from a nautical chart thought into an oblique map thought as well as and thence into a map excogitation view. All made possible yesteryear the role of Scalable Vector Graphics.