Youshless t1_j62haqq wrote on January 27, 2023 at 6:07 AM

I went through the entire January and nothing was highlighted in Iran even though protests for human rights and democracy are happening daily...

Also, quick question. What sources do you use to feed the data into the map?

happylad32 OP t1_j62j3c2 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 6:28 AM

Yeah, sorry about that - I'm working on a seperate section for conflicts and wars, particulary domestic ones. The Iranian protests will be in there instead.

At the moment I'm using various news agencies like Reuters, AP etc and also collating info from Wikipedia. I hope to add more sources soon.

Youshless t1_j62xx74 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 9:41 AM

Thanks for replying!

It's a really cool idea, it may just need filters or something so you can put more activity without saturating the map. It may also be worth thinking about the scale of a conflict or event scaling the icon. So, for example the Russia Ukraine issue is very popular, has been ongoing for awhile now and affects quite a lot around the world... So that would be bigger (just a thought). The final thing is how to manage when multiple countries are involved.

Good luck and well done!

Tacorgasmic t1_j632ken wrote on January 27, 2023 at 10:46 AM

You also need to be able to filter ongoing conflics and new one.

Honestly this is such a great idea of how to keep up to date with world news.

mdh579 t1_j63avh7 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 12:24 PM

About the sources. Some of those listed are not political. It just seems like it's taking random death counters and info and putting it all down. Ok, a building collapsed due to water leaking? A stadium had a stampede? A lot of this is just random news stories about people dying. What's the algorithm to decide if an action is political or not? Just curious.

The-SillyAk t1_j6585mn wrote on January 27, 2023 at 8:15 PM

I love this idea but I fear burn out. This is a lot of admin work. Perhaps you can write a script that automates atleast the gathering of data.

Additionally, another very good news source is 'the daily aus' insta page. It is focused mostly on australian news but it also go into detail around global topics. The journalism is very good.