The Oregonian has mapped all terrorist attacks inwards the U.S. from 1970-2014. The information for the map comes from the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database.
The Terrorism inwards the United States, 1970-2014 map uses round down markers to demo the place of each terrorist attack. The color of the markers betoken where deaths, injuries or no injuries resulted from the attack. The size of the markers betoken the publish of deaths or injuries.
If y'all direct a marking on the map y'all tin read to a greater extent than details well-nigh the attack, including the twelvemonth of the assault together with the grouping / individuals who carried out the attack.
This isn't the commencement fourth dimension that The Oregonian has mapped terrorism data. Back inwards Nov The Oregonian used CartoDB's Torque library to practice an animated map of terrorism deaths roughly the Blue Planet from 2001-2014. Deaths yesteryear Terrorism, 2001-2014 shows worldwide fatal terrorist attacks yesteryear month.
On its ain the animated map layer mightiness convey been a niggling crass, reducing thousands of deaths to niggling flashing dots on a map. However The Oregonian has too added a distich of other information layers to the map to supply some much needed context.
The 'Deaths yesteryear Country' pick adds a choropleth layer to the map, showing the publish of terrorism deaths yesteryear province roughly the world. The 'Narrative' pick allows y'all to direct each private terrorist assault on the map to sentiment a summary well-nigh the assault together with the master intelligence source for the data.
