The data comes from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The NICS is used by to determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible to buy firearms or >explosives. Gun shops call into this system to ensure that each customer does not have a criminal record or isn’t otherwise ineligible to make a purchase. The data has been >supplemented with state level data from census.gov.
- The NICS data is found in two sheets of an .xlsx and .csv one file. It contains the number of firearm checks by month, state, and type.
- The U.S. census data is found in a .csv file. It contains several variables at the state level. Most variables just have one data point per state (2016), but a few have data for more than one year.
- The highest purchages record happened in which state for the persons under 18 years, percent on April 1, 2010?
- What census data is most associated with high gun per capita?
- Which states have had the highest growth in gun registrations?
- What is the overall trend of gun purchases?
- What type of gun has highest quantity, and the relationship to totals?
- What is the sum of registered gun in each state over time?
A lot of missing "nan" values in the dataset which could affect our understanding of the long term insights of particular variable.
There is postive trend in gun purchase over the years and state is the most important variable for comparing the data along with few weak association with the census variables.
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