A Few Parts of Forgotten History

By: Henry Wong

The data used in this post is from the RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents which contains data on terrorist attacks throughout the world from 1986-2009.

This data set was a change of pace for me. For the past year, I have gone through university data, rugby players, betting on political campaigns, and irritating my friends by telling their favorite sports team has a low probability at winning.

To start things out I wanted to look at only America and then from there I sorted by number of Terrorist attacks per city.

New York City and Washington D.C I expected. New York City is home of The Statue of Liberty and often an image of the American Dream. Washington D.C. is the capital, a natural political target. But, Miami? Although the sixth densest city in the US, it doesn’t feel like 2nd in the highest number of terrorist attacks. So, I decided to look a bit further into it by limiting the data set to just Miami and tracking the perpetrators of these attacks.