The map is mainly to be a general informative map and as such it does not have a particular audience but if one does have to be specified it would be for those who work in the intelligence community as visualization to the data to help spot trends or a lack thereof.
I envision the map to be a graduated symbol map but that may change.
The scope of the map is on a global scale.
The Source will be the global terrorism database provided by the University of Maryland.
http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd
The base map will likely be exported from Arc Map but I may use an already existing illustrator base map if I can find one.
The production will begin with collecting and filtering the data. All subsequent steps will be related to applying the data to the base map
The biggest challenge will likely be defining what constitutes a major terrorist event with deciding how exactly I want to map the phenomena a close second.
This is an example of a map that displays the same theme that I want to map although I feel like it is not well done.
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