US mass shooting tracker

Joanna Lin Su
May 24, 2021

According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US, there have been nearly 200 mass shootings in 2021 alone — and that tally does not appear to be slowing down anytime soon. To track the incidents, I created a python script to scrape and parse the GVA database. Here are the graphics I produced for Business Insider.

Story link: https://www.insider.com/number-of-mass-shootings-in-america-this-year-2021-3

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Joanna Lin Su

data, graphics, news automation @NYU Journalism Studio 20