Shows statistics of gun deaths and other leading causes of death by state.
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, federal agency that conducts and supports health promotion, prevention and preparedness activities in the United States, with the goal of improving overall public health.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
Also, population data from
https://dilemma-x.net/2016/12/21/u-s-state-populations-2016-most-populous-states/
Gun violence is a major current issue in the US.
We will have a map of the US and each state will be a different shade of red depending on the firearm deaths adjudted for age by the CDC. Under the US map, users will have an option to select two states to compare leading causes of deaths. This will redirect the user to another page which shows a double bar graph about the leading causes of death for a side-by-side comparison of those two states.
On the US map, the user can hover over each state and a tooltip would inform the user of the number of deaths based on firearms and the rate of death (based on population and age). The user can click on states to get the stats for all leading causes of death, and choose 2 states to see a side-by-side comparison of leading causes of death with a double bargraph.
The user can explore the question of how significant gun violence is in the US, and how different states compare in terms of safety. They can also gain insight on what the how the leading causes of death in each state compare with each other.
We will use D3 to generate the colored map of the US and bar graphs.
