Amusement Park Ride Safety Analysis

Project Proposal

• We have chosen to look into amusement park data to explore ride safety relationships visually, inspired by the earthquake in-class assignment using Leaflet.
• Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/stevenlasch/roller-coaster-accidents?select=Saferparks-dataset-legacy-v2.csv
• Final Sketch: ETL using python/pandas + SQL/SQLite --> Flask-API --> Heroku --> HTML + CSS + JavaScript and Plotly/D3 --> Leaflet map?
• Visualization plans: Leaflet map, injury category v. Manufacturer, ride category/type v. number injured v. manufacturer v. business type, date v. number injured (saftey of coasters over time)
• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/mdaxc6/databootcamp_project_2

Background Work

ETL Used Python and Pandas to format and prepare the data. State Abbr -> Full Names Used Google geocode API to add location info to the dataset. Used Pandas to create sqlite database containing info.

SQLite and Flask-API Created Flask app with 3 routes All Accident Data Accident Data by State Accident Data by City We utilized SQLAlchemy to pull data from the database, and jsonify to return a JSON format. The main dashboard is rendered in flask via a render template.

Heroku The flask app was pushed to Heroku with automatic deploy https://park-accidents-api.herokuapp.com/

Using Plotly to Plot Visualizations

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