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Information on more than 180,000 Terrorist Attacks
The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist attacks around the world from 1970 through 2017. The GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 180,000 attacks. The database is maintained by researchers at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), headquartered at the University of Maryland.
Definition of terrorism:
"The threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation."
About dataset:
Size: (181691, 135)
Geography: Worldwide
Time period: 1970-2017, except 1993
Unit of analysis: Attack
Variables: >100 variables on location, tactics, perpetrators, targets, and outcomes.
Access this link to know detail of columns: https://start.umd.edu/gtd/downloads/Codebook.pdf
☆ HIGHLIGHTS:
- Overview of the whole world
- Know terrorist trends and regional differences
- Be able to answer the big question posed in the end
☆ CHALLENGE:
- Understand the meaning of the columns.
- Find the right chart to show the change of trends across each region.
- Thinking about big question for analysis
- Find an approach to analyze and answer the big question.
- Some difficulties in coding, drawing maps.