Today in class we discussed point pattern and point process and how they can be used to find randomness in our data.  I also got a chance to go over my questions in class and Gary suggested that I narrow down the scope from states to counties as they are easier to digest. I also went over my questions with Lavanya and we created this list of questions to narrow down later for our assignment:

1. Which demonstrations took place in response to gun violence and where did they occur?
2. Why did some counties have protests related to labor laws over others?
3. Which organizations are involved most in violent demonstrations?
4. which counties have the highest number of incidents?
5. are there any hotspots of violent activity?

The bolded questions peaked our interest the most.

This week in class we talked about k-clustering which is used a lot in spatial analysis. We also reviewed the new data that we will be working with for our next project. When I looked through the data, as Garry suggested I took out the peaceful protests and put them into a separate tab in the excel file to be studied later. My very first questions when looking at the data is what constitutes a protest with intervention? I was wondering if those are protests where police intervened during a peaceful protest.

 

Other questions while looking at the data are:

1. which are the organizations involved?
2. Do those organizations, organize around certain locations or is it random?
3. Which states have the highest number of incidents?
4. What are the most common event types in different regions?
5. Are there any hotspots of violent activity?

This week in class, Lavanya and I wrapped up our Project One report. We did a final read-through to correct errors and add any missing elements. Overall, the project was insightful, and our findings surprised me—I did not expect to find no correlation between the time of year and shootings of mentally ill individuals. On the other hand, I was not surprised by the lack of overlap between areas with high body-camera usage and shootings of mentally ill individuals.