Hard work pays off

At the NY Tech Meetup, Andrei Scheinkman showed off some work his team at Huffington Post did relating to gun violence in America.

Interactive version is here. The animation shows day by day, where the victims of gun violence were located. The table below contains the details of each victim, and links to the news story covering the event.

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What is not seen on the chart is even more impressive. Andrei described how they looked around for databases that would provide them the raw materials for creating this chart but no timely source exists. This means that a team of 15 (if I heard correctly) spent a month or so manually collecting all the data on a spreadsheet.

It's also the reason why they cannot continue the map indefinitely, as people have other things to do.

Andrei also contrasted this visualization with a text article that describes the state of gun violence in words. You guessed it, the visual presentation is hands-down more compelling.