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#+title: Explore Australian road fatalities.
-** Road fatalities in Australia
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Recently inspired to doing a little analysis again, I landed on a
dataset from
[[https://bitre.gov.au/statistics/safety/fatal_road_crash_database.aspx]],
** Trends
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:CUSTOM_ID: trends
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I started by looking at the trends - what is the approximate number of
road fatalities a year, and how is it evolving over time? Are there any
** What age group is most at risk in city traffic?
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Next, I wondered if there were any particular ages that were more at
risk in city traffic. I opted to quickly bin the data to produce a
** Hypothesis
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Based on the above, I wondered - are people above 65 more likely to die
in slow traffic areas? To make this a bit easier, I added two variables
** Conclusion
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It's possible to conclude older people are over-represented in the
fatalities in lower speed zones. Further ideas for investigation are