Welcome to the Philadelphia Gun Violence (GV) Dashboard, I developed this using the R Statistical programming language as a personal project to investigate gun violence incidents in my home city of Philadelphia and the United States at large. The User Guide tab will describe many of the same details, techniques, and assumptions as below.
The Dashboard takes in data from Open Data Philly. Open Data Philly is self-branded as “the official open data repository for the City.” Data scraped from here does not look into “mass shooting” events and instead looks at all reported shooting incidents.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gun Violence:
- The Philadelphia map takes different considerations into account and does not restrict to only “mass shooting” events, specifically “city-wide shooting victims, including Police Officer-involved shootings.”
This is in no way meant to reflect any political preferences, personal biases, or advocacy. What is presented here is the facts only, what viewers and users take away from them is their responsibility solely.