This morning I discovered an interesting data set

Historical Data About Every Reported United States Drone Strike
from http://dronestre.am/

THIS DATA WAS ACCESSED 8/31/2013

So I decided to make some quick visualizations using Google api.
The Data can be downloaded in JSON format and looks like this:

Parse out the coordinates of each strike using ruby:

Heat Maps

Accumulate strike totals by country:

Pie Chart By Country

Code to display the date of a strike, and its attributes; deaths, civilians, injuries, and children.

Reported US Drone Strikes 2012 – 2013 stacked chart

Entire Time Range of drone.am dataset accessed 8/31/2013