2015 Police Killings Dataset

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2015 Police Killings Dataset

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Last edited Dec 14, 2015

Created on Dec 14, 2015

This example loads the 2015 Police Killings dataset, originally compiled by The Guardian, and displays it as a formatted JSON object on the page. The visualization uses D3.js and the `dsvDataset` library to parse the CSV data according to the column types and metadata defined in a separate JSON file. It demonstrates how to integrate a CSV dataset with a metadata schema, making the data structure explicit and reusable for further analysis or custom visualizations.

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This is a dataset listing incidents in which people were killed by police in 2015. Originally compiled by The Guardian and published in the work The Counted: People killed by police in the US. This CSV version was copied from the repository Buzzfeed: Analysis of Fatal Shootings by Police.

This example page provides the basic code required to load the data and display it on the page (as JSON) using D3.js.

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