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Data Journalism

The Database Documenting 60 Years of Conflict in Colombia

For five years, about 100 people processed 10,236 datasets from 592 sources and documented 353,531 facts for the Memory and Conflict Observatory, a project that seeks to document the violent events that occurred during the Colombian war. The results can be summarized into a shocking number: 262,197 fatalities over 60 years. Sociologist Andrés Fernando Suárez led the team, and this is what he learned.