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Investigating-FBI-Gun-Dataset

By Tash

The data that is used in this project is retrieved from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The goal of this project is invesitigating NICS background checks to identify data trends of US gun purchases and creating visualisations using:

  • Python
  • NumPy
  • Pandas and Matplotlib.

To open this project please use Jupyter Notebooks (Anaconda) which is primarily used for data visualisations. Alternatively you can use PyCharm, Apache Zepelin or rstudio.

Getting Started:

In Jupyter, Open and upload the following files:

  • US.Census Data.CSV
  • gun_data.xlsx
  • Investigate_a_Dataset.ipynb
  • Investigate_a_Dataset.pdf
  • Investigate_a_Dataset.html

References:

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view

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