Monday, 20 October 2014
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Data Story Update # 1
I’ve decide to based my story off five different data sets
examining trends in motor vehicle fatalities in BC.
These data sets are available on the provincial government’s
open data portal, and examine fatalities by region, gender, accident type, involvement
of alcohol and drugs, and what month the accidents occurred. All the sets cover
data from 1996 to 2012.
I believe this will be a good basis for a news story because
at a first glance the data seems to show a decline overall for fatalities in car
accidents, but with that decrease there are an increases of individual trend as
well (number of motorcycle deaths for example). Asking an expert about variation
in certain trends may prove useful, but also finding a more human element to
the story should be important.
As far as the actual data is structured it is fairly
straight forward, however how some of the criteria are formatted by year will
be tricky to tidy up.
Questions I would like to answer this data:
How has motor vehicle fatalities increase or decreased? What
year had the most fatalities and which year has the least?
What region has the most fatalities? Which region has the
least? What region has decreased the most? Which has increased the most?
Which gender has the most fatalities? How has that changed
over time?
Which months have the most and least fatalities? How has
that change over time?
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