Visualising conflict:

Telling a scale sensitive story with ACLED data


Story for February 2020:

Enjoy exploring geo-coded conflict event data from ACLED in a scale sensitive visualisation, taking better care to show the location of events and display relevant information at appropriate scale.

Event intensity at lower zoom levels (||||||)
Explore event intensity to give the user a sence of where events are happening.

Event categorisation at higher zoom levels ()
Explore the position and categorisation of events alongside relevant topographical and points of interest information.
protests riots violence against civilians
explosions/remote violence battles combination/multiple events

Go places:

Click a button to fly to the continent and see the intensity of events.

Go to conflicts:

Click a button to fly to a specific conflict or area of interest to see the type of event.

Visualisation info:
Current map zoom level ()
Map centroid longitude latitude ()

Legend

Heatmap (event count)

Low High

Point layer (event category)

Battles

Explosions/Remote violence

Violence against civilians

Riots

Protests

Multiple types

Data source: acled database (accessed March 2020)

Data timeframe: 01.02.2020 - 29.02.2020