An Interactive visualisation of global arms transfers from 1950 to 2017
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Heavily inspired by Will Geary's (@wgeary) Video - https://vimeo.com/286751571
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SVG Map by AMCharts - https://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/?map=world
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Dataset retrieved from SIPRI - https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers
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Thanks to Jsvine for this neat trick to download the set as CSV - https://gist.github.com/jsvine/9cb3300588ed402160fe
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Cleaned dataset by removing:
- All deals where Supplier or Recipient is unknown.
- All deals which had multiple sellers without specification which.
- Deals with the UN, NATO, Regional Security System (RSSS), OSCE & African Union as seller or buyer
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and consolidating the following groups:
- Amal (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
- ANC (South Africa)* -> South Africa
- Anti-Castro rebels (Cuba)* -> Cuba
- Armas (Guatemala) -> Guatemala
- Biafra -> Nigeria
- contras (Nicaragua)* -> Nicaragua
- El Salvador (FMLN) -> El Salvador
- ELF (Ethiopia)* -> Ethiopia
- FNLA (Angola)* -> Angola
- GUNT (Chad)* -> Chad
- Haiti Rebels -> Haiti
- Hezbollah (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
- Huthi rebels (Yemen)* -> Yemen
- Indonesia Rebels -> Indonesia
- Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)* -> Cambodia
- Lebanon Palestinian rebels* -> Lebanon
- LF (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
- libya GNC -> Libya
- Libya HoR -> Libya
- LTTE (Sri Lanka)* -> Sri Lanka
- Macedonia (FYROM) -> Macedonia
- MTA (Myanmar)* -> Myanmar
- Mujahedin (Afghanistan)* -> Afghanistan
- Northern Alliance (Afghanistan)* -> Afghanistan
- Northern Cyprus -> Cyprus
- SLA (Lebanon)* -> Lebanon
- SNA (Somalia)* -> Somalia
- Southern rebels (Yemen)* -> Yemen
- Soviet Union -> Russia
- Syria Rebels -> Syria
- UIC (Somalia)* -> Somalia
- Ukraine Rebels* -> Ukraine
- UNITA (Angola)* -> Angola
- Viet Cong -> Vietnam
- Viet Minh -> Vietnam
- Viet Nam -> Vietnam
- ZAPU -> Zimbabwe
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Other plugins used:
- Color Picker - https://bgrins.github.io/spectrum/ by bgrins
- jQuery */