Project Background: A project by Everytown for Gun Safety, EveryShot is an AI-powered tool that tracks US shootings and gun violence in real-time, using US news outlets as sources of information.
My Role: Front-end application development and coding, API development for communication with database.
Public Link: https://everytownresearch.org/labs/everyshot/
Stack: PHP, WordPress, leaflet.js, Twig templates, React.js, TypeScript
Features:
Incident Map – Visualize gun violence distribution with interactive Albers USA map.
Search and Filter – Perform keyword search against database with keyword type-ahead. Filter by date, location, and other characteristics.
Summary View – View filtered stats in-aggregate.
Single Incident View – View detailed information about each incident, including location, news sources, and description.
Compare View – Compare two cities or states next to one another.
Create custom line chart – Step through chart wizard to create a custom line chart.
Create custom bar chart – Step through chart wizard to create custom bar chart.
Download to .xlsx – Download all or filtered data as .xlsx format.