initialguess/police-shootings

DAT 301 Final Project

Police-Shootings

DAT 301 Final Project

This project explores the data found in the kaggle dataset: Police Shootings from 2015 - Sep 2022

The dataset tracks people killed by law enforcement in the United States and includes data about:

id: Serial No
name: Name of the victim
date: Date of the occurance
manner_of_death: In which way the victim died
armed: Used weapon of the victim
age: Age of the victim
gender: Gender of the victim
race: Race of the victim
city: City of the occurance
state: State of the occurance
signs_of_mental_illness: Either victim shows sign of mental illness or not
threat_level: Threat level from the victim
flee: Either victim fleed or not, if fleed then used vehicle
body_camera: Either the occurance is recorded using camera or not
longitude: Longitude of the place of occurance
latitude: Latitude of the place of occurance
is_geocoding_exact: Either the place of occurance is exactly available or not

A video presentation of the work can be found here