Integrated Visual Analysis of Global Terrorism

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Integrated Visual Analysis of Global Terrorism

• Remco Chang
• Charlotte Visualization Center
• UNC Charlotte

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GTD Data

• Its a large dataset. GTD has 59,603 incidents,
  with 119 attributes (dimensions) for each
  incident.
• It covers almost all incidents happened from 1970
  to 1997, across the whole world.
• It contains mixed types of attribute ---
  Categorical and Numerical.
• It also includes uncertain/unknown incidents.

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Visual GTD Flow Chart
Entity Relationships (Geo-temporal Vis)
Dimensional Relationships (ParallelSets)
Entity Analysis (Search By Example)
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WHO Terrorist Groups
Five Flexible Entry Components
What
WHERE
WHEN
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Enter System by single or multiple Selections
System will supply Specific Information
Drilldown to Original Info
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Parallel Sets View

• Parallel Sets
• Displays relationships among categorical
  dimensions
• Shows intersections and distributions of
  categories

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Parallel Sets View

• Dynamic filtering on continuous dimensions can
  show more information
• Here we see the large proportion of facility
  attacks and bombings in Latin America during the
  early 1980s

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Analysis using Longest Common Sequence (LCS)

• Two strings of data (each representing a series
  of events)
• GATCCAGT
• GTACACTGAG
• Basic algorithm returns length of longest common
  subsequence 6
• Can return trace of subsequence if desired
• GTCCAG
• GATCCAGT
• GTACACTGAG
• Additional variations can take into account event
  gap penalties, time gap penalties, and
  exploration of shorter, or alternate, common
  subsequences

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Grouping using MDS in 2D

• Each o represents a terrorist group
• Groups form cluster according to naturally
  occurring trend sizes
• Sharp divide between large clusters in right
  hemisphere
• Left hemisphere contains many smaller clusters

MDS Analysis by TargetType
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Integrated Terrorism Analysis
Multimedia
Real Time
Known Events
Visual GTD
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Video Analysis Goals

• to describe trends in news content over time
• to discover breaking news and hot topics over
  time
• to trace conceptual development of news
• to retrieve news of interests effectively
• to collect evidences and test hypotheses for
  intelligent analysis
• to compare group (such as different channels)
  differences in content
• to associate news content with social events

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Multimedia Analysis
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Video Analysis Example

• CNN Fox News
  MSNBC

• News contains view points and opinions
• Find local, regional, national, and international
  reports of the same event to get a complete
  picture

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NVAC Collaborations

• PNNL A. Sanfilippo (Content Analysis and
  Information Extraction of closed caption)
• PNNL W. Pike (Emotional state extraction from
  closed caption)
• Penn State A. MacEachren (Geographical
  analysis)
• Georgia Tech J. Stasko (Jigsaw, entity
  relationships)
• Visual Analytics is the point of integration!!

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Integrating Terrorism Data Analysisand News
Analysis
Terrorism Visual Analysis
Terrorism Databases
Terrorism VA
Jigsaw
NVAC
Stab/ TIBOR Reasoning Environment
Framing, Affective Analysis
Broadcast VA
News Visual Analysis
News Story Databases
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