Mapping Xl Years Of Global Terrorism

These 2 novel interactive maps of global terrorism casualties (1970-2013), by David Johnson, provide insight into terrorism hot-spots roughly the globe together with the changing geography of terrorism over those 44 years.

The Global Terrorism Casualties map visualizes terrorism casualties roughly the globe every mo a point map. The concentration of dots inwards Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Republic of El Salvador together with inwards other countries helps to emphasize some of the close political troubled locations inwards the final half-century. The dots on the map for each terrorist incident are sized yesteryear the publish of causalities.

The same dataset is used inwards the Global Terrorism Heatmap. This map nevertheless adds a fourth dimension chemical ingredient to the data. The CartoDB Torque library is used to animate the terrorism incidents yesteryear date, which provides a smashing visualization of terrorist hot-spots over time. For example, honour how inwards Republic of El Salvador terrorist casualties come upward to a halt inwards Jan 1992, later on the halt of the country's civil war.