Arms Sales Visualization

Global Arms Sales

UI update by gigamaster for Codemo

This Visualisation shows global arms transfers from 1950-2017.

It was heavily inspired by this Video by Will Geary's (@wgeary) - https://vimeo.com/286751571

Since I wanted to see how other countries that are known to be large arms-exporters would look in such an animation, I decided to create an interactive version in which you can select any countries you want to be displayed.

The dataset was retrieved from SIPRI - the Stockholm International Peace Research Institue. - https://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers

The SVG world map was retrieved from AMCharts at https://www.amcharts.com/svg-maps/?map=world

If you have a suggestion or found a bug feel free to open an issue on the GitHub Repo.

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

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

* Other plugins used

• Color Picker - https://bgrins.github.io/spectrum/ by bgrins
• jQuery