Gracie Mochizuki

- For my final project I decided to look at the data sets regarding the history of drug vs. alcohol overdose across states and how these datasets impacted substance use policies in their respective states.  - My biggest struggle is finding datasets regarding overdoses before the 2000's. The CDC only has from 1999-present.  - Due to this issue, I changed my project to analyze the prevalence of suicides of veterans during periods of war - I was able to find a database of suicide rates at the county level from 1968 on the CDC website which I will be using as the primary source for my data

 Ideas for Final Project Number of individuals who died due to drug overdose over the 1900's to early 2000's to capture the movement of the opioid crisis across states in the United States.  I would first download data in the form of a CSV file from the CDC regarding the number of drug overdoses by state Next I would join the data to a shapefile of the U.S. states  I would create a chloropleth map to symbolize each color based on the number of overdose deaths to create a visual representation of higher vs. lower death rates I would use the time slider to demonstrate the changes over time