Global Terrorism (Exploratory Data Analysis)

This repository contains files for Global Terrorism Exploratory Data Analysis.

Overview -

• This Project is exploratory data analysis of Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and more about the data, it's collection methodology, definitions, and coding schema can be found here.
• Here I tried to find out How relevant is the definiton of Terrorism to this data? I tried to gain understanding of how terrorism spread across globe, it's relevant details, though knowing philosophical thought behind these incident would not be possible without domain expertise.
• This project has also been converted to Dashboard for users to interact and compare the results and it's repository can be found here for more details.

Data Set Information -

• Geography: Worldwide
• Time period: 1970-2017, except 1993
• Unit of analysis: Attacks and Casualities
• Variables: >100 variables on location, tactics, perpetrators, targets, and outcomes but used around 30 parameters as most of them has more than 80% missing values.
• Sources: Unclassified media articles (Note: Please interpret changes over time with caution. Global patterns are driven by diverse trends in particular regions, and data collection is influenced by fluctuations in access to media coverage over both time and place.)

How Data looks? (After some cleaning [first 5 rows])

	year	month	day	extended	country_txt	region_txt	province	city	latitude	longitude	vicinity	crit1	crit2	crit3	doubtterr	multiple	success	suicide	attacktype	target_type	targsubtype1	target_subtype	target_entity	nationality	group	individual	weapon_type	weapon_subtype	killed	wounded	property	hostages/kidnapping	cross_border	ideological_international	Date	week	day_name	weekday	is_weekend	casualities	casualities_median
0	1970	7	2	0	Dominican Republic	Central America & Caribbean	nan	Santo Domingo	18.4568	-69.9512	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	Assassination	Private Citizens & Property	68	Named Civilian	Julio Guzman	Dominican Republic	MANO-D	0	Unknown	nan	1	0	0	0	0	0	1970-07-02 00:00:00	27	Thursday	3	0	1	1
1	1970	1	1	0	United States	North America	Illinois	Cairo	37.0051	-89.1763	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	Armed Assault	Police	22	Police Building (headquarters, station, school)	Cairo Police Headquarters	United States	Black Nationalists	0	Firearms	Unknown Gun Type	0	0	1	0	-9	-9	1970-01-01 00:00:00	1	Thursday	3	0	0	0
2	1970	1	2	0	Uruguay	South America	Montevideo	Montevideo	-34.8912	-56.1872	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	Assassination	Police	25	Police Security Forces/Officers	Juan Maria de Lucah/Chief of Directorate of info. and intell.	Uruguay	Tupamaros (Uruguay)	0	Firearms	Automatic or Semi-Automatic Rifle	0	0	0	0	0	0	1970-01-02 00:00:00	1	Friday	4	0	0	0
3	1970	1	2	0	United States	North America	California	Oakland	37.7919	-122.226	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	Bombing/Explosion	Utilities	107	Electricity	Edes Substation	United States	Unknown	0	Explosives	Unknown Explosive Type	0	0	1	0	-9	-9	1970-01-02 00:00:00	1	Friday	4	0	0	0
4	1970	1	2	0	United States	North America	Wisconsin	Madison	43.0766	-89.4125	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	Facility/Infrastructure Attack	Military	28	Military Recruiting Station/Academy	R.O.T.C. offices at University of Wisconsin, Madison	United States	New Year's Gang	0	Incendiary	Molotov Cocktail/Petrol Bomb	0	0	1	0	0	0	1970-01-02 00:00:00	1	Friday	4	0	0	0

Some Explortory Data Analysis Results -

• Most affected Countries:

• Ratio of Terror Attacks and People Killed:

• How the casualities look over the Map of Iraq?

• More Details about Iraq:

• How different Regions are affected over the years?

• Weapons used in different regions:

• Motivation behind these Attacks:

Libraries used -

• Pandas : Used for exploring and manipulating dataset
• Numpy : Working with arrays
• Seaborn and Matplotlib : Visualization library for plotting graphs (2-D static plots)
• Plotly : Interactive visualization library for Graphs