Variables used for analysis:

We first explored the data by looking at the total number of observations (i.e. 13587), number of
variables (i.e. 34), number of missing values for each variable, and the type of each variable. The
data consists of mainly categorical variables and text variables which means that it would be
most appropriate to apply association rules to extract useful insights from the data. The data also
contained few variables of discrete numeric nature.

Variables
Province/ Administrative Region/ State
(provstate)
Attack Information (attacktype1_txt)
Target/ Victim Type (targtype1_txt)
Total Number of Fatalities (nkill)
Year (iyear)
Extended Incident (extended)
City, Latitude, Longitude, Vicinity
Doubter, multiple, success suicide,
attacktype1, targtype1,corp1, natlty,
natlty1_txt, gname, guncertain1, individual
weaptype1,weaptype1_txt, weapsubtype1
weapdetail, nwound, property, shostkid,
ransomINT_LOG
Reasons
This variable is kept for the purpose of
identifying that we are keeping the data state-
wise.
This variable is kept because this categorical
variable is one of the major factors to classify
the data on. It does not have missing values
making it easier for us to classify data on it.
This variable is kept because it tells about the
type of victim which is one of the major
factors to find the association.
This is a numerical variable which is storing
the number of total fatalities. This is
important to draw conclusions for association.
This variable determines the gravity of the
accident. Thus, including it is important.
This is not included because this detail is not
important for our analysis.
This is additional information that is not
necessarily supporting our argument.
These variables were removed as they weren’t
entirely needed. These are numeric and
categorical variables but adding them will
only increase complexity.
These variables are important but not
necessary for our analysis. It included a lot of
NAs. These variables have been ignored due
to their irrelevance to our analysis.