The difficulty in visualising a large collection of geocoordinated police shooting incidents is effectively transmitting information without overwhelming the viewer. First, I attempted to use the Folium library to create individual markers on a map to represent each incident. However, as the dataset grew larger, the computational cost of creating markers for each data point increased. As a more effective solution to this problem, I decided to use a HeatMap. The HeatMap can help to show incident concentration more succinctly and the distribution of events on the map more clearly. I improved the heatmap’s readability by adjusting its size and intensity with settings such as blur and radius.
