Data visualization tool summarizes terrorist attacks around the world

Periscopic , a data visualization tool firm, created A World of Terror to explore the extent of terrorism around the world. Data was compiled from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and Global Terrorism Database (GTD) records ranging from 1970 to 2013. The interactive data visualization tool allows users to view 25 terrorist groups’ actions by five categories including longest active, recent activity, most victims, geographic spread and by the name of the group. The reader can also choose incidents that have been verified for the 25 groups or see all the incidents credited to a group even if not verified by authorities.

By hovering over a group, the reader will see the numbers of incidents that group has been involved with as well as the total number wounded or killed as a result of those incidents. The data visualization tool also includes a chart which represents the number of incidents and when they occurred as well as how many were killed or wounded. A map located above the chart allows the viewer to see which countries the acts of terrorism took place. By clicking on the map, readers can review a brief background of the group.

Al-Qa’ida and Taliban are two of twenty five groups listed in A World of Terror interactive data visualization tool.

The data analytics are summarized in a Sources and Methods link in the bottom left of the page. A brief analysis of the data is broken into the geography, years, wounded, and killed on the bottom right. Basically, the analysis states that the 25 groups selected out of 3,065 listed in the GTD are responsible for 48 % of the wounded and 56% of those killed in terrorist attacks in 73 countries.

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