US and Iraq
Terrorist Attacks
Independent Research Project
Introduction
Terrorist attacks around the world have been consistently evolving throughout the last couple of decades. In this report, data about terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2017 are analyzed to examine how terrorism has changed in the United States and Iraq. Information about the number of attacks in each country each year, the number of casualties, and the density of the attacks per state for the United States and per province for Iraq are observed. Publicly available census data is also utilized to understand the correlation between population and number of attacks or casualties in the United States.
My Role
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Gather background information about terrorism
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Perform data wrangling by removing, reformatting, and splicing data using delimiters
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Cross-reference multiple datasets to gather new information
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Understand and utilize software for data visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis
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Produce research paper through writing and figure creation
Technologies and Skills
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Tableau
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Importing datasets
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Using Marks for effective visualization
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Applying filters
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Creating line, bar, and scatter graphs
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Creating geographic maps for specific regions
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Constructing workbooks and dashboards
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Mathematica
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Importing datasets
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Produce GeoHistograms of specific regions
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Program software to distinguish state or province location by spatial data alone
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Python
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Importing datasets
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Pandas
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NumPy
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Creating and reformatting data for cross-referencing
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Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft PowerPoint
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Microsoft Word
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Google Docs
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Google Drawing
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Google Drive
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Google Slides
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Zoom (remote communication)