This week has been very slow because we had no Tuesday classes this week. The one major change I’ve made is rather than grouping by coast I’ve decided to use predetermined regions in the US like the North East and Mid West. I’ve just been doing general statistics like mean, standard deviation, and so on this week for each of the different regions, but plan on doing something more specific. What that more specific thing is is something I’ll decide this weekend.
FEBRUARY 14TH: COAST TO COAST
After finishing grouping the States by gun regulations, I compared the rates of shootings where the victim was armed with a gun between the three groups. I’ll hold off on staying the outcome until I write my report.
My new goal focuses on the Eastern United States and the Western United States. When I was looking at the map of the US I created, it seemed like the East Coast had a majority of black police shooting victims while the West Coast had a majority Hispanic and I’d like to confirm or deny this. I also noticed the West Cost shootings were more tightly grouped around major cities which I might also look into.
February 7th: Gun Regulations
I’m currently in the process of researching gun laws by state. My goal is to classify each state into one of four or five categories. Some criteria I’ll be using for grouping are open carry laws and concealed carried laws including if you need a permit and at what age you can get a permit. The goal is to separate the states in a way that doesn’t leave one of the categories with only one or two entries.
Switching to a different topic, I noticed when looking at my mapping of each shooting that the East Coast and West Coast had different race distributions. On the East Coast, there was a large quantity of black people being killed while the West Coast had Hispanics as its majority. The West Coast also had more concentrated clusters of shootings, but that’s likely due to large amounts of land being undeveloped such as deserts and mountains or plains and farmlands.