Inspiration
The dire condition in Ethopian Civil war reminded us of the tragedy of armed conflict. Thinking bout this, we wanted to lear more about how governments in conflict are armed. We became inspired to learn more, and help educate others too.
What it does
Using data from the uppsala conflict data program and the stockholm peace research institute, gun emu provides an intuitive visualization of the global arms trade between nations, and its relation to the geographies of global violence. It is our hope that our gun emu will inform citizens about the connection between world conflict, their nations, and themselves.
How we built it
We obtained and processed the data from the uppsala conflict data program and the stockholm peace research institute using pandas and made use of the pydeck module to provide an intuitive visualization of the obtained data.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Increased our understanding of python, pandas, and pydeck. Developed a tool that can help citizens understand global arms trade and its impact on peace.
What we learned
Global arms trade has significant impacts on global peace and prosperity, and arms trade data can be carefully followed to identify locations under risk of incoming/ongoing violence.
What's next for Gun Emu
We noticed patterns between global arms trade and major state-based violent events in almost all countries that have had such events in the past. We hope to understand such patterns to try and predict possible risks to global peace.
Built With
- html
- javascript
- jupyter
- pandas
- pydeck
- python
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