Research Guides: The 120 Initiative: Visualization and Data Sources

Visualization and Data Sources

Data.gov
"The home of the U.S. Government's open data." Provides data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile apps and design data visualizations and much more.
GunViolenceArchive.org
The Gun Violence Archive is an online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. GVA is an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization.
Pew Research
What the data says about gun deaths in the US? A closer look at gun deaths in the United States, based on a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the CDC, the FBI, and other sources.
ICPSR
"An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. "
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The US Historical Election Returns Datasets is from ISCPR.
Gun Violence in America
Article by the National Institute of Justice going over the statistics on prevalence of gun violence, gangs and gun-related homicide, and nonfatal firearms-related crime.