Visualizing Fatal Car Accidents in America

Kenneth Thieu

CMPS161

Winter 2014

Description

The Goal of this project is the visualization of Fatal Car Accidents in America through various measurements, including
Fatality/Fatal Accident Rates and percentages based on Time of Day and Alcohol Relevance.

Links

Source Directory of Project
Technical Report

Tools

D3 Library The R Project for Statistical Computing

Details

I used D3, Javascript, and a bit of R to visualize my data. Heat Maps were used to visualize Fatality/Fatal Accident Rates
on a map of America per state while bar graphs were used to visualize the rest. A bubble chart, using R, was also used to visualize
Weather and Light Conditions. Data was taken from the NHTSA FARS Database, US Census Bureau, and Federal Highway Administration.

User Guide

Click on the link that leads to the source directory of my project. Then click on the appropriate html links that you wish to
see a visualization of. For the maps, you can zoom in and out using the mouse wheel and move the map by dragging the mouse.