Today I decided to look into using the GPS coordinates (i.e. latitudes and longitude) for analysis.
- On looking at the data, I initially it would be a good idea to use the coordinates give to visualize the clusters of shootings and the cities provided in the dataframe.
- However, on further inspection of the data, it was clear that there was a scarce number any GPS co-ordinates given. If i was to use these co-ordinates, i would not get much information.
- So, I decided to try and use only the city and state information provided to visualize the cluster.
- Although this would not be a precise location, (since we do not have the exact address or co-ordinates), it would be possible to use a heatmaps to view to overall distribution of police shootings in a city or state.
- I am currently trying to use the Geo-Pandas Library to create a geo-heatmap of the US with regards to the fatal police shootings.