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