Visual Analytics of Terrorism Data

Terrorist attacks are on the rise in the last few decades. As we look for alternative methods to address this problem, Social Network Analysis (SNA) offers promising techniques among which visual analytics combines the best of statistical analysis with human n ability to visually recognize hidden patterns and trends in terrorist events and networks. In this paper, we present our work on visual analytics of terrorism in India. Since structured data is not readily available for such analysis, we show how data extracted from online news articles and tweets can be integrated with the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to produce promising results.