https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/guns-data

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/guns-data

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/guns-data
• Owner: fivethirtyeight
• Created: 2016-07-06T14:23:14.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-01-21T19:15:28.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T06:03:25.813Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: data
• Language: R
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• Size: 1.77 MB
• Stars: 300
• Watchers: 48
• Forks: 292
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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Code and data behind FiveThirtyEight's [Gun Deaths in America](http://fivethirtyeight.com/gun-deaths/) project.

There are five files in this repository:

- `CDC_parser.R` - code to download, clean and parse data from the CDC's [Multiple Cause of Death datafile](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/VitalStatsOnline.htm#Mortality_Multiple).

- `interactive_prep.R` - code to generate the data behind our interactive data visualization.

- `interactive_data.csv` - clean data behind our interactive data visualization

- `full_data.csv` - cleaned gun-death data from the CDC for 2012-2014.

- `SHR_parser.R` - code to clean and parse data from the FBI's [Supplementary Homicide Reports](https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/NACJD/guides/ucr.html).

Questions/comments/corrections: [email Ben Casselman](mailto:[email protected])