This week I was introduced to activity theory, at first emphasis was placed on “Rules” but as discussions went on I had the opportunity to visit the other attributes like: Subject, Object, Tools, Community, Division of Labor, and Outcome.

 

We were given access to Fatal police shootings data which contains information about Victims, Locations of the shootings, officers involved and few other relevant information. I spoke to a few classmates, and we delegated on what each entity represented, we plan to see where the analysis takes us and how much more data we can access that can help answer our questions. Some of the questions we came up with from our view of the data were:

 

1.  What is he difference in percentages of shootings of the different races (how are the numbers changing for the races with time in the different regions)
2. What is the cause for the different killings?
3. Why were the individuals killed instead of contained, even in situations that may not have been dangerous for the officers.