Big Blue Data Academy EDA project:

'Deaths Caused by Police in the United States'

This is the repository for the 1st project on EDA for the Big Blue Data Academy Bootcamp 2021/2022. The title of the project is 'Deaths Caused by Police in the United States'.

Team composition: Iasonas Katechis, Fotis Fitanidis

Datasets Used:

1. Inoccent Deaths Caused by Police (All time)

Data collected by fatalencounters.org

Lists killings by police and gives relevant information like name, date, location, race, gender, cause of death, reason for encounter. etc. Check data folder for more info (Column names, comments etc.).

Shape: (30860, 27)

time span: 2000-01-01 - 2021-08-31

2. Police Killings 2013-2021

Lists killings by police and gives relevant information like name, date, location, race, gender, cause of death, reason for encounter. etc. Check data folder for more info (Column names, comments etc.).

Shape: (9116, 35)

time span: 2013-01-01 - 2021-04-24

3. Police Violence and Racial Equity - part 1 of 3/deaths_arrests.csv

Data collected by mappingpoliceviolence.org

This datasets is part of a huge project which maps police violence across the US and studies the racial, economic and social aspects of the phenomenon. This particular csv collects analysis about the racial distribution of killings per City as well as homicide, violent crimes and arrest statistics per US City.

Shape: (1006, 46)

time span: 2013-01-01 -2019/12/31

Results

Some excerpts from the presentation of the project. Disturbingly, the percentage of deaths has a strong racial characteristic. If interested, you can see our full presentation here.