Comparison of Mass Shootings and Shark Attacks by Year

[maee]

Using data from a recent article in Mother Jones and from the Univ. of Florida Natural History Museum, I compiled this comparison of shark attacks and mass shooting frequency in the USA by year. Please distribute this chart, I think it speaks for itself.

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[Hiltonizer]

gold.

reposting to reddit, should be viral any minute now.

 

[kurtb]

Ban sharks!

 

[widnerkj]

Awesome

 

[Mattyweb]

Amazing how they seem to correlate. Any idea why that would be? What did you do to 'smooth' the shooting data?

 

[headednorth]

Arent anti's just going to point out that, to a large extent, mass shooting casualties were lower than shark casualties during the awb, and higher before and after?

 

[Gillham]

It doesn't speak for itself. So what? I must be missing something here..

 

[Sweeney]

Got me some pre-ban assault sharks to sell.

 

[Dr. CCW]

It looks like if you smooth 1994-2004 the numbers are down. Get ready for that to be thrown in your face.

 

[turbo89]

Oh the humanity!!!

 

[Inferno]

Oh the humanity!!!

Hahaha shit you have me laughing out loud at the airport

 

[jobowker]

Can someone explain the difference between the two mass shooting lines for me? I'm not sure what a smoothing algorithm entails.

 

[RedFive]

gold.

reposting to reddit, should be viral any minute now.

too many liberals will downvote imo

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[headednorth]

Can someone explain the difference between the two mass shooting lines for me? I'm not sure what a smoothing algorithm entails.

The dotted line is the actual number of casualties. Theres such a difference from one year to the next, the line bounces up and down like someone having a heart attack. If you take an average of those numbers and plot a line (green), it is smoother and easier for the eye to visualize the overall trend, whether its going up or down. Thats the basic idea at least.

 

[mikem317]

The "smoothing" appears to be a two- or three-period moving average.

 

[maee]

The "smoothing" appears to be a two- or three-period moving average.

Yes, it is a four period moving average.

 

[Deleted member 12999]

Oh the humanity!!!

This is truly the core issue. Shark shootings are the pink elephant in the room here.

 

[vicpinto]

Yeah but do they come with friggin' lasers.

 

[ToddDubya]

Any data before the "Jaws" movies? I bet there were 0 shark attacks before Hollywood glamorized shark-on-human violence.