I just recently finished a season of Aaron Mahnke's Podcast "Grim & Mild Presents" where the theme was Pirates. The show focused on historical acts of piracy - mostly in the Carribbean - but in the final episode, they mentioned how many acts of piracy are still recorded every year. That got me thinking...
A small bit of research later, and I had found the United Nations' International Maritime Organization which focuses on the safety and security of international shipping, while also focusing on reducing the environmental impact of shipping. From what I can tell, the IMO aggregates data that has been reported to individual reporting authorities and publishes it on their website. With this as the case, there are some callouts about the dataset:
I decided not to exclude this data, as there still seem to be some interesting insights in the data. I knew that there was still piracy in the world, but did not realize how widespread it was. I can't wait to see what insights we can uncover in the data.
Our data source is hosted on our Data.World page. We've created an Excel version and a CSV, both should work, just providing both versions in case you want to enrich the data more easily in Excel:
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