The US Department of Transportation’s National HighwayTraffic Safety Administration maintains a nationwide census of fatal injuries suffered in motor vehicle traffic crashes. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) can be accessed here. Using the FARS data and FactLook’s geocoding feature, we plotted every auto accident by the number of fatalities. The first data viz we created is for […]
MOTD: 071216 Austin, TX Fatalities 2015
We created this visualization using data from the Austin (TX) Police Department‘s website. The APD maintains a database of motor vehicle, bicycle, motorcycle and pedestrian fatalities. This data covers the period from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2015. We used FactLook‘s geocoding feature to place pins on the map indicating one of four types of […]