DataViz Global Arms Sales

README.md

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app/dataviz/global-arms-sales/README.md

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+# globalArmsTransfers
+An Interactive visualisation of global arms transfers from 1950 to 2017
+
+* Heavily inspired by Will Geary's (@wgeary) Video - https://vimeo.com/286751571
+
+
+* SVG Map by AMCharts - https://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/?map=world
+
+
+* Dataset retrieved from SIPRI - https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers
+* Thanks to Jsvine for this neat trick to download the set as CSV - https://gist.github.com/jsvine/9cb3300588ed402160fe
+* Cleaned dataset by removing:
+
+	- All deals where Supplier or Recipient is unknown.
+	- All deals which had multiple sellers without specification which. 
+	- Deals with the UN, NATO, Regional Security System (RSSS), OSCE & African Union as seller or buyer
+
+* and consolidating the following groups:
+	- Amal (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
+	- ANC (South Africa)* -> South Africa
+	- Anti-Castro rebels (Cuba)* -> Cuba
+	- Armas (Guatemala) -> Guatemala
+	- Biafra -> Nigeria
+	- contras (Nicaragua)* -> Nicaragua
+	- El Salvador (FMLN) -> El Salvador
+	- ELF (Ethiopia)* -> Ethiopia
+	- FNLA (Angola)* -> Angola
+	- GUNT (Chad)* -> Chad
+	- Haiti Rebels -> Haiti
+	- Hezbollah (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
+	- Huthi rebels (Yemen)* -> Yemen
+	- Indonesia Rebels -> Indonesia
+	- Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)* -> Cambodia
+	- Lebanon Palestinian rebels* -> Lebanon
+	- LF (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
+	- libya GNC -> Libya
+	- Libya HoR -> Libya
+	- LTTE (Sri Lanka)* -> Sri Lanka
+	- Macedonia (FYROM) -> Macedonia
+	- MTA (Myanmar)* -> Myanmar
+	- Mujahedin (Afghanistan)* -> Afghanistan
+	- Northern Alliance (Afghanistan)* -> Afghanistan
+	- Northern Cyprus -> Cyprus
+	- SLA (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
+	- SNA (Somalia)* -> Somalia
+	- Southern rebels (Yemen)* -> Yemen
+	- Soviet Union -> Russia
+	- Syria Rebels -> Syria
+	- UIC (Somalia)* -> Somalia
+	- Ukraine Rebels* -> Ukraine
+	- UNITA (Angola)* -> Angola
+	- Viet Cong -> Vietnam
+	- Viet Minh -> Vietnam
+	- Viet Nam -> Vietnam
+	- ZAPU -> Zimbabwe
+
+
+* Other plugins used: 
+	- Color Picker - https://bgrins.github.io/spectrum/ by bgrins
+	- jQuery 
+*/