Friday, August 29, 2014

Terrorism [Interactive Map]

This interactive map was published by the data  visualization folks at Periscopic.  This map uses information from the global terrorism database to look at terrorism events from 1970-2013.

A World of Terror by Periscopic


If you click on a terrorist organization, the map will focus on the geographic regions where the incidents  occurred. You can also use the slider bars to look at certain years. This would be useful to talk about the scope and reach of terrorism - and to link that discussion to one on global inequality.

There is A LOT of information here and it can feel overwhelming but it is a useful resource for looking at the number of events as well as how many people were killed or wounded.  I would recommend spending some time with this before you used it in a classroom setting.

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