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Steavi Swinson Northeastern University Masters of Professional Studies in Geographic Information Technology Capstone Project Capstone Advisor: Dr. Cordula Robinson Abstract Here we serve to analyze global terrorism, events that occurred within the United States between 1985-2016, specifically, a comparison of terrorist events before 9/11 and after 9/11. These data are analyzed along with weapons types, terrorist organizations responsible, target types, and temporal analysis. The main analysis performed is kernel density and pivot tables. Results show a decrease in terrorism, but an increase in awareness. Significance is because news media are more prominent nowadays, most people are under the impression that terrorism has increased recently. Due to increasing social media and spread of information, people are led to believe that terrorism occurs daily. The analysis shows the opposite, and current social and political influences support these data. Social society changes freque

Steavi Swinson Northeastern University GIS/Cartography Before I begin explaining my map making process, it is important that I define my “Big 5”. My message is intended to create awareness. This map will be highlighting which neighborhoods are seeing high or low crime activity. I will be creating an awareness map because I do not believe enough people are educated about what is happening in their surroundings. A lot of people don’t really read or watch the news anymore because they feel that it is too negative. And for those that do watch the news, all the news media does is highlight all the bad that is happening around the world; influencing people to believe that bad things happen, more often than they actually are. No one ever reports that some places are doing well and seeing no crime. Therefore, I think it is important to create awareness about what is actually happening around people, so they are not misinformed. My audience will be the city of Waltham residents. My

European Migration Crisis Steavi Swinson Northeastern University Crisis Mapping For Humanitarian Action A few years ago, the world was finally able to take a peek into a world that not many of us know. This has been an ongoing crisis that hasn’t had any light shed on the matter until about 2015, when news media investigated the possibility of hundreds of thousands of people suddenly moving to the United States. This created a huge uproar across the US and the European Union because nobody knew how to handle, what we know now as, the European Migration Crisis. And while we don’t see too much on the news about it anymore, it doesn’t mean that the situation has ceased to exist, we simply aren’t hearing about it any longer. Regardless, this is an ongoing crisis that we cannot ignore, and should be addressing. The European Migration Crisis began as a crisis, when increasing numbers of people arrived in the European Union, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southea