Visualization of armed conflicts from Wikipedia

A web application for the bachelor's thesis on »Geospatial visualization of Wikipedia news reports about armed conflicts«

1. Demo

Visit the demo website at: global-conflicts.github.io

2. Setup

2.1 Frontend

Install npm and run:

cd frontend/

npm run dev

After that, the server is available under localhost:3000.

2.2 Data processing pipeline

The output of individual pipeline modules can be found in the the data/ folder.

If you want to compile the dataset on your own, install Python and run:

cd tools/

pip install -r requirements.txt

Next, this command scrapes data from Wikipedia and Wikidata and stores plain text files in a given folder:

python3 scraper.py 2022-02-20 | python3 parser.py | python3 extractor.py "Armed attacks and conflicts" "Armed conflicts and attacks" | python3 locator.py | python3 jsonifier.py ../frontend/src/data/incidents.json

The dataset can now be used by the frontend.