Real Pirate Attacks - Visualized

In honor of TLAPD, we have this visualization of all pirate attacks since 1978.
I'll let hrbrmstr explain it

Avast me hearRties! (ok, enough of the pirate speak in a blog post)
It wouldn’t be TLAPD without out some modest code & idea pilfering fromMark Bulling & Simon Raper. While those mateys did a fine job hoisting up some R code (your really didn’t think I’d stop with the pirate speak, did you?) for their example, I took it one step furrrrther to build an animation of cumulative, yearly IRL pirate attacks from 1978 to the present. I found it a bit interesting to see how the hotspots shifted over time. Click on the graphic for the largeR version or I’ll make ye walk the plank!!.