These 2 novel interactive maps of global terrorism casualties (1970-2013), by David Johnson, provide insight into terrorism hot-spots around the the world as well as the changing geography of terrorism over those 44 years.
The Global Terrorism Casualties map visualizes terrorism casualties around the the world every 2nd a point map. The concentration of dots inward Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria, Republic of El Salvador as well as inward other countries helps to emphasize some of the nearly political troubled locations inward the final half-century. The dots on the map for each terrorist incident are sized past times the pose out of causalities.
The same dataset is used inward the Global Terrorism Heatmap. This map even then adds a fourth dimension chemical ingredient to the data. The CartoDB Torque library is used to animate the terrorism incidents past times date, which provides a non bad visualization of terrorist hot-spots over time. For example, discovery how inward Republic of El Salvador terrorist casualties come upwards to a halt inward Jan 1992, subsequently the halt of the country's civil war.
