Interactive Tableau dashboard analyzing global civilian targeting events over time using aggregated ACLED conflict data.
This project visualizes trends in civilian targeting events across multiple countries between 1997 and 2025. The dashboard is designed to support exploratory analysis of long-term political violence patterns, geographic concentration, and conflict escalation trends.
The visualization combines:
- Global geographic mapping
- Time-series trend analysis
- Country-level filtering
- Interactive dashboard exploration
- Civilian targeting events increase significantly after the early 2010s.
- Several countries demonstrate persistent concentrations of civilian targeting activity across multiple decades.
- Later years in the dataset show broader geographic distribution of civilian targeting events.
- Temporal analysis highlights periods of escalation associated with major regional conflicts and insurgencies.
- Tableau Public
- Microsoft Excel
- ACLED Aggregated Conflict Data
Data sourced from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED).
Source:
https://acleddata.com/aggregated/number-events-targeting-civilians-country-year
ACLED provides real-time and historical data on political violence, protest activity, and conflict events worldwide.
View the interactive dashboard on Tableau Public:
The dashboard uses aggregated ACLED civilian targeting event data grouped by country and year.
Data preparation included:
- Standardization of yearly event totals
- Geographic mapping preparation
- Tableau relationship modeling
- Interactive filtering configuration
- Dashboard layout and visualization design
/acled-civilian-targeting-dashboard
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├── README.md
├── data/
├── dashboard/
├── images/
│ └── dashboard_preview.png
└── docs/
This project is intended for educational and analytical purposes only.
All conflict data attribution belongs to ACLED.