As someone from India it is probably a good thing that the US has seemingly not had us in mind at almost any point during the last 100 or so years, except for a brief period when we conducted some nuclear tests during 1998(?)...
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Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900
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#13Fun idea but as someone from a country that has changed shape and occupation quite a bit last century (we also changed flags quite a bit) I find it a bit low on meat. It is conflating words or names with countries while doing a oh-so typical "let's drop lots of data into algorithms and visualize the result" dataviz for grabbing internet attention.
If you’re going to be dismissive and somewhat pompous, You could at least point out specifics of what you see wrong with this and how you would’ve done it differently or liked to have seen it done differently. At least that way people could engage with you beyond down voting you. Personally I think this visualization is quite neat. Sorry.
Putting Russia and the Soviet Union under the same flag is the obvious one.
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#14Wonder how it would change if e.g. mentions of Soviets had flag of USSR rather than Russia, etc.
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#15A few things which I found of note: 1. The blanket of Union Jacks, especially in the first half of the 20th century. 2. The impact of the Korean War clearly pales in comparison to the impact of Vietnam. 3. If you didn't know better, it would look like the US and China were at war. 4. France in 1926-27. I'm not sure what happened in France of international significance then? The bombing of Damascus?
The US and China are at war. Economic war. Cyber war. The Cold War never really ended, the players and the venues just shifted.
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#16Why was Germany not more prominent during WWII (but apparently during WWI)?
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#17A few things which I found of note: 1. The blanket of Union Jacks, especially in the first half of the 20th century. 2. The impact of the Korean War clearly pales in comparison to the impact of Vietnam. 3. If you didn't know better, it would look like the US and China were at war. 4. France in 1926-27. I'm not sure what happened in France of international significance then? The bombing of Damascus?
3. And judging by history, it’s not looking so good for China!
Nope, and I’m guessing this is the main reason for China’s Belt and Road project. Their reliance on maritime trade puts them at the mercy of the US navy.
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#18Wonder how it would change if e.g. mentions of Soviets had flag of USSR rather than Russia, etc.
It would just split and dilute the mentions of the Soviets/Russia during the USSR's existence. While it existed, Russia and the USSR were pretty much synonymous.
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#19This is really interesting. I would be interested in seeing a visualization of just China by headline count, for the time it has been in mind, 2009 to present, as it seems to have picked up significantly in the last year or so.
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#20Why was Germany not more prominent during WWII (but apparently during WWI)?
My guess is there were a lot of articles about supporting the British, especially economically.
With WWI the British were still the preeminent economic power.