After a couple of months of intense development, we are pleased to announce the first public beta of our African Conflict Map. Based on data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), the map provides a filterable interface to over 94,000 conflict events in the ACLED database, spanning violence in Africa from 1997 to 2014.
The first version of the mapping system has a bundle of filters for examining historic conflict data over more than fifteen years and almost a hundred thousand events.
The initial beta of the system allows filtering events by event type, actor type, country, year-range, and fatalities. Further, it offers the ability to export filtered data from the system in CSV format for users to perform their own analyses on. For specific details about the sampling and coding methodology of the ACLED project, you can head to their methodology section, while the African Conflict Map can be found here. We’d love to hear your feedback on the system, so that we can make future improvements and enhancements in the most useful way possible. If you’d like to let us know your thoughts, please just drop us an email.
Hi, this isn’t working on my Safari browser. it does look interesting though
Hi Anton
Thanks for letting us know. I’d suggest trying it out on Chrome in the meanwhile, and we will try and get to the bottom of the kinks affecting it on Safari.
Sorry to say it still doesn’t work even on chrome.
Thanks for your diligence with this! There does indeed seem to be a software bug that we’ve fixed now. I can see the map loading correctly in Chrome, and would love if you could give it another try.
muuuuuch better, and FYI it works on Safari
Brilliant. Thanks for following up!