satp

The aim of satp is to document the cleaning, organization, exploration, and analysis of data on violent incidents reported in the English language Pakistan press, as documented by the South Asia Terrorism Portal. The original data can be found at http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/database/index.html

Code Sections

Data Acquisition and Cleaning:

• satp_clean.R downloads the data from the SATP website and standardizes the format of that data to make it easier to pull out location and even information.

Geolocation:

• satp_geolocate.R pulls information about province and district from each event and then deconflicts information across events.

Event Classification:

• satp_classify.R pulls information about instigators of attacks (Pakistani military, militants, unknown instigator, drones) and casualties (security personnel or non-personnel) to classify incidents.

Parameter Definition and Selection

• satp_select.R examines different lags and hyperparameters at different temporal and geographic scales to determine the appropriate settings for the eventual models.

Model Building and Analysis

• satp_model.R models the data and compiles the analytic findings.

Presentation

• satp_present.R organizes the analytic findings into graphs and tables.