Proj1 details discussed with professor and and some details included in project2 how me and my teammate contributing each other with the professor
—where I grouped U.S. states by the number of political protests, riots, and incidents of violence against civilians—I’ve now taken a crucial next step: adjusting for population size.
This idea came from a helpful suggestion by my professor, and the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. States like California or Texas naturally show higher event counts simply because they have larger populations. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re more protest-prone than smaller states. To make fair comparisons, I needed to account for that population difference.
So this week, I:
Gathered population data for each U.S. state from the Census Bureau.
Combined that with my event data from the ACLED dataset.
Calculated normalized event rates by finding the number of each event type per 100,000 people in each state.