Power of Data Visualization

All of the complexity of the Afghan conflict — and all of the bureaucracy NATO used to manage the counterinsurgency effort — was summed up by a single spaghetti monster of a PowerPoint slide. "When we understand [it]," war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal joked when he saw the slide, "we’ll have won the war."

via www.wired.com

This map shows public expenditure in a given financial year on military as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP).

via chartsbin.com
(click here to see an interactive graphics)