The Terrorism Timelapse Map

The Oregonian has used CartoDB's Torque library to practice an animated map of terrorism deaths to a greater extent than or less the footing from 2001-2014. Deaths past times Terrorism, 2001-2014 shows worldwide fatal terrorist attacks past times month.

On its ain the animated map layer mightiness accept been a lilliputian crass, reducing thousands of deaths to lilliputian flashing dots on a map. However the Oregonian has equally good added a yoke of other information layers to the map to furnish some much needed context.

The 'Deaths past times Country' pick adds a choropleth layer to the map, showing the seat out of terrorism deaths past times province to a greater extent than or less the world. The 'Narrative' pick allows you lot to direct each private terrorist attacks on the map to stance a summary near the gear upwardly on too the master copy word source for the data.

Via: Visualoop