Descriptive Statistics of the fatal police shooting dataset:
- id: ID represents a unique identifier for each fatal police shooting incident. It allows us to uniquely reference and track individual incidents. The range of IDs from 3 to 8696 suggests that there have been 8002 unique incidents recorded in the dataset, with no missing or duplicate IDs.
- date: The date column records the date and time of each fatal police shooting incident. The dataset spans from Jan 2, 2015, to Dec 1, 2022. The mean date around Jan 12, 2019, indicated the central tendency of the incident dates. 25% of the incidents occurred before January 18, 2017, and 75% January 21, 2021.
- age: The age columns represent the age of the victim at the time of the fatal police shooting. The age of victims in the dataset ranges from 2 to 92 years old. The mean age is 37.209, which signifies the average age of the victim. The 25th and 75th percentiles provide insights into the age distribution, with 25% of victims being 27 years old or younger and 75% being 45 years old or younger. The variability in the victim ages is given by std, which is around 12.979.
- longitude: This longitude contains the longitude coordinates of the locations where the fatal police shootings occurred. The data spans a wide range of longitudes, from approximately -160.007 to -67.867. The mean longitude, around -97.041, represents the central location. 25% of incidents occurred west of -112.028 and 75% west of -83.152. The standard deviation of around 16.525 indicates the dispersion of incident locations along the longitude axis.
- latitude: This column represents the latitude coordinates of the locations where the fatal police shootings occurred. Latitude values vary from approximately 19.498 to 71.301. The mean latitude, around 36.676, represents the central location. 25% of incidents occurred south of 33.480 and 75% south of 40.027. The standard deviation of around 5.380 indicates the dispersion of incident locations along the latitude axis.