SithmaJayawardena/Terrorism-Study

A statistical analysis with interactive graphs to explore data of conflicts in between the state and the rebels in Nigeria. # A statistical analysis with interactive graphs to explore data of conflicts in between the state and the rebels in the African continent. A growing fraction of the world's civil wars seem to be breaking out on the African continent in the last few decades. Specifically, conflicts in between rebels and the state exerts a major negative impact on the society in the face of Terrorism. Political violence in Africa is a complex subject, thus it will be useful to note a few trends in African terrorism. I examined a longitudinal sample of political violence events in African countries between the years 1997-2020 available in Armed Conflict Location and Event Data for the purpose of this analysis. The questions explored in this notebook are as follows: 1. What are the major rebel groups active in violence and in what forms they perpetrate violence? 2. How the temperal dynamics of the forms of terrorism changed over the years? 3. How the temperal dynamics of the countrywise terrorism and resulted fatalities changed over the years? 4. Is there any difference among the forms of terrorist violence in relation to the countrywise incidence of conflicts and fatalities? 5. What is geograpghical dynamics of yearly incidence of conflicts in the African continent? The goals of this study: 1. Exploratory Data Analysis of Terrorism data in African countries. 2. Incorporate dummy coding and data aggregation techniques. 3. Data visualization using interactive plots and maps. 4. Practice tabular data extraction and manipulation for an efficient analysis. 5. Use different python librarires (e.g. pandas, numpy, ipywidgets, geopandas etc.)