On Wednesday we all talked about next steps what we will be doing. As our mid term report is coming up. I have narrowed down my questions. And looking to start my report and answering the questions this week. Hearing what my classmates are digging into has helped me a lot even ones that’s have nothing to do with what I’m looking into. It has given me extra perspectives.
Week 3 Post
I started off the week looking more into the top ten counties with the most shootings. As we talked a little in class about California, pops up a lot. In the top ten, five times so fifty percent of the top ten is counties in California. My biggest question so far for the was the correlation of the body cams being off with urban and high poverty areas. So, I been looking at the top ten especially the counties in California. It’s not a full sweep where all ten are high poverty but I think I can still do something especially Los Angeles County and Orange County.
I will be comparing the percentage the body camera is off in those counties that match my beginning question of high poverty and urban areas. And comparing it to Counties in top ten maybe top twenty such as Maricopa County that is urban but not high poverty but still has second most. I want to do that and see does Maricopa, county with not as high poverty have a bigger percentage of body cams being on then say Los Angeles County that does have high poverty. I think that will take me a step forward and seeing the differences between those.
Week 2 Post
This week I spent most of the week looking at the data and coming up with added questions I want to look for. I decided to use Mathematica as primary. I will be taking the most time in looking at the bodycams. Last week my main question was where there were the most shootings did the top counties match the urban and high poverty description. Another question I have is for threat type, how often when it was marked accident was the body camera actually on. I’m starting to practice more on Mathematica. For this upcoming week i plan on posting a few of graphs I made.
Week 1 Post
What I did this week was mostly look at the data. What first caught my attention was the body cam. I didn’t do the exact math but sorted it and looked at the number and total number and seen less than 20 percent where actually on. I definitely want to do what you were talking about in class each location. But my thought process I want to see how often these body cams is off in a urban, high poverty area. I know it would be a lot to do whole country so like Massachusetts and the bigger states like New York, Texas, Florida and California. And see how often body cams actually on in those worsened areas.
Today in class made a plan to try to sort out by counties, top 10 most and try to see a correlation with my urban and high poverty area and if most of top 10 fit that. I think that will be a perfect start and will be able to take and learn a lot from that. I also plan to look at ages around mine from 18-24 later on.