This data visualization app is meant to serve as an interactive guide to understanding shooting incidents in New York City. To see the raw data used in this app, click on the 'Raw Data' tab on this page. Some of the features that this app includes are:
- Data visualizations detailing incident circumstances and victim characteristics
- Examination of overall activity over time and time of day
- Interactive maps showing the precise location of each shooting
This app makes use of data retrieved from NYC OpenData. More specifically, this app uses historic incident-level data collected by the New York Police Department which can be found here. Each record in the data set represents a specific shooting incident that occured between 2006-2023 in one of the City's five boroughs.