The data on http://killedbypolice.net/ is an important aggregation of deaths due to police violence in the US. However, it is challenging to use because of how that website is formatted. Here we show how to scrape these data, clean it a little, and demonstrate some visualiations to explore the data.

This presentation was delivered at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science workshop on reproducible research and open science in May 2015. For more details of the concept, see https://github.com/benmarwick/BIDS-repro2015-lightning-talk & https://github.com/ropensci/rrrpkg

Rmd at https://gist.github.com/benmarwick/a67d9df7da53f84bfaa8

Output from attempting to reproduce the figures and statistical output in Heare JE, Blake B, Davis JP, Vadopalas B, Roberts SB. (2014) Evidence of Ostrea lurida (Carpenter 1894) population structure in Puget Sound, WA. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e704v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.704v1 My review is the the github repository issue tracker: https://github.com/jheare/OluridaSurvey2014/issues/12