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Project Title: Drug mortality and socio-economic conditions in Connecticut

Project Description: We are looking to analyze trends in drug overdose death rates in Connecticut and suggested improvements in data collection

Research Questions to Answer: Is there a relationship between:

• drug-induced mortality rates and income
• drug-induced mortality rates and age
• drug-induced mortality rates and education
• drug-induced mortality rates and gender
• drug-induced mortality rates and geo-location (counties)
• drug-induced mortality rates and unemployment rates
• drug-induced mortality rates and barriers to medical treatment

Data Source Links:

• Drug overdose related deaths in Connecticut. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/accidental-drug-related-deaths-january-2012-sept-2015
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Connecticut
• https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/data/developers/api-user-guide/api-guide.pdf
• http://www.portal.ct.gov/-/media/Departments-and-Agencies/DPH/hisr/PDF/DrugOverdoseReport2004pdf.pdf?la=en

Team Members:

• Aaron Liu - Git Hub, Data Collection and Cleanup, Unemployment data correlation
• Alisha Pandhi - Pharmacy data collection, cleanup and map display
• Monica James - County census data collection, age/time visualization, drug breakdown
• Sandhya Govindaraju - County maps, age/sex/gender demographic statistics, time-mortality correlation.