For the last few months, I’ve been working on an analysis and mapping project related to American death.
I’ve published the first part of this data visualization project here, which looks at America’s mass shootings.
Using data from both the Gun Violence Archive and the Violence Project, I geolocated every mass shooting* and made it navigable by state.
I plan to make this piece and several others part of an interactive application look at America’s preventable deaths - covering epidemics to crime.
I finally got around to launching this application after the recent mass shooting in Maine, which killed 18 people.
My brother is a cop in Maine and my sister a nurse in one of the area hospitals. Both were on the front lines in treating the victims and searching for the gunman, who was found dead last night.
So many of us have been touched by gun violence, though many do not realize it. One of my friends from college was shot in Aurora. Another one of my friends lost his brother. A childhood fr…
