April 9, 2018
This application provides interactive visualizations based on Washington Post's Database of every fatal shooting by a police in the U.S. since 2015.
To create beautiful interactive maps and plots this application used the power of leaflet and plotly packages.
The Shiny application was deployed to the ShinyApps.io service and it is available at this link:
All source files of the application can be found at the Github repository below:
In 2015, The Washington Post created a database cataloging every fatal shooting nationwide by a police officer in the line of duty, collecting data on those who were killed and details of the shootings.
The effort began because data compiled by the federal government was unreliable and incomplete.
This database is based on news reports, public records, social media and other sources.
Original dataset is csv file and it is located here.
| id | name | date | manner_of_death | armed | age | gender | race | city | state | signs_of_mental_illness | threat_level | flee | body_camera |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Tim Elliot | 2015-01-02 | shot | gun | 53 | M | A | Shelton | WA | True | attack | Not fleeing | False |
| 4 | Lewis Lee Lembke | 2015-01-02 | shot | gun | 47 | M | W | Aloha | OR | False | attack | Not fleeing | False |
| 5 | John Paul Quintero | 2015-01-03 | shot and Tasered | unarmed | 23 | M | H | Wichita | KS | False | other | Not fleeing | False |
| 8 | Matthew Hoffman | 2015-01-04 | shot | toy weapon | 32 | M | W | San Francisco | CA | True | attack | Not fleeing | False |
| 9 | Michael Rodriguez | 2015-01-04 | shot | nail gun | 39 | M | H | Evans | CO | False | attack | Not fleeing | False |
What we did apply on the dataset:
Thank you!