Gary started the class off by showing us the map of different counties in the state of Massachusetts and how the counties change overtime, sometimes in just a span of few decades. Then we started talking about the data set.

During this session I had come up with a second question…

I would like to learn about gun laws across different counties and states. For example, what is the age requirement to own a gun in a particular state? Is open carry legal there? How about Permits and background checks? Are gun laws stricter in some states and more lenient in others?

If some states have more lenient laws, that could mean more people running around with guns, potentially leading to an increase in police shootings, right? To analyze this, I would need to categorize states into two groups: strict and lenient. By comparing these groups, I could find out whether stricter gun laws correlate with lower violence and fewer shootings.

But, how should I define “strict” versus “lenient” gun laws? What criteria should I use to make this distinction?

 

Hi so day one of MTH 522 started off by Gary telling us about his ex and a lot of interesting stories about police shootings and how surprisingly no one had any real data about the police shootings until recently, which was actually a study done by someone from the Guardian Newspaper.

He also introduced to us something called the “Activity Theory” which to me sounds like how people use data and tools together to come up with a solution or conclusion.

In our first class he gave us a dataset of police shootings that happened in the United States  which was collected by the Washington Post.

The dataset has details of the victims of the police shootings.

My question is could climate be one of the reasons which made them more prone to violence?

because as you may know that hotter climate does make people prone to more violence.

so maybe I think I need to find out if hotter regions have more fatality count than cooler regions.

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