Code and data behind FiveThirtyEight's Gun Deaths in America project.

There are five files in this repository:

• CDC_parser.R - code to download, clean and parse data from the CDC's Multiple Cause of Death datafile.
• interactive_prep.R - code to generate the data behind our interactive data visualization.
• interactive_data.csv - clean data behind our interactive data visualization
• full_data.csv - cleaned gun-death data from the CDC for 2012-2014.
• SHR_parser.R - code to clean and parse data from the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports.

Questions/comments/corrections: email Ben Casselman