History 390 Final
DOJ - Bureau of Justice Statistics
Centers For Disease Control
Here you will find the sources for all of our data that has been used for the site. Links are available (just click on the picture). All sources are listed in APA format, and were built using George Mason University's Citation Managing Client, ZOTERO. If you find that we are missing a citation, please let us know on the 'Contact' page.
Sources for Our Data
Data used in the Map of Gun Violence in Major US Cities, the Homicides Caused by Guns, and the Homicides per 100,000 by State were derived from the CDC. Link below:
Violence-Related Firearm Deaths Among Residents of Metropolitan Areas and Cities 2006-07. (n.d.). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved December 15, 2012, from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6018a1.htm
Information for the Homicides Caused by Guns visualization and the Gun Violence versus Incarceration Rate Map was obtained through the Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the Department of Justice of the US.
Bureau of Justice Statistics Homicide trends in the U.S.: Weapons used. (n.d.). Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) . Retrieved December 15, 2012, from http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/weapons.cfm
Information for the Ngram and the creation of the Map of Mass Shootings in America were from Google, Inc., and it's web applications Google Maps and Google Ngrams.
http://apps.google.com
Information for the Map of Mass Shootings in America was compiled by the Citizen's Crime Commission of New York City from publicly available documents and used in the map's pop-up windows.
Uyesugi, r., & 40. (n.d.). Mass Shooting Incidents in America (1984-2012). Citizens Crime Commission of New York City. Retrieved December 15, 2012, from http://www.nycrimecommission.org/initiative1-shootings.php
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Citizen's Crime Commission of New York City
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Information for the text visualizations was supplied by the Library of Congress, via the THOMAS, the legislative information center for all things Congress.
THOMAS. (n.d.). THOMAS (Library of Congress). Retrieved December 15, 2012, from http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php
THOMAS: Library of Congress
Information for the Ngram and the creation of the Map of Mass Shootings in America were from Google, Inc., and it's web applications Google Maps and Google Ngrams.
http://apps.google.com
Wordle
Text visualizations were built using easy tools on Wordle.com
The Map of Gun Homicides in Major Cities of the US was built using ESRI's Arc-GIS map building software and some external tools. More information can be found at ArcGIS.com
Arc-GIS by ESRI
Download the data file to view what was used in the maps, visualizations, and graphs.
File is saved as a .xlsx (Microsoft Excel) file but can be opened by most any spreadsheet program. Just click the image to the right and it will download.