Team-5---Project-1

---

For our project, we investigated traffic accidents and the circumstances surrounding them.

Our data was obtained from Kaggle

Team Members:

---

Chris Hauck, Colleen Banzhof, Ken Njema, and Eric Lewiston

Questions:

---

• Do the seasons affect number/severity of traffic accidents?
• Does the day of the week affect number/severity of accidents?
• Does the time of day affect number/severity of accidents?

Dataset Acknowledgements

---

• Moosavi, Sobhan, Mohammad Hossein Samavatian, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, and Rajiv Ramnath. “A Countrywide Traffic Accident Dataset.”, 2019.

• Moosavi, Sobhan, Mohammad Hossein Samavatian, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Radu Teodorescu, and Rajiv Ramnath. "Accident Risk Prediction based on Heterogeneous Sparse Data: New Dataset and Insights." In proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM, 2019.