About The Project

Welcome to The Life Star, a collection of millions of car crashes and relevant data points that can help you better understand when, where, and why car crashes happen. This project provides "tidy data" that is standardized to facilitate data exploration, visualization, and modeling and improve the reproducibility and reliability of your results. The data has been collected, cleaned, validated, and integrated into a Postgres database that you can query using SQL or related tools.

The data for this project comes as government agencies, police reports, and media outlets. The data covers car crashes in different countries, regions, and cities over several years. There are common entries like date, time, and weather for each crash. But there are also differences such as the knowing the number of vehicles involved or the number of injuries.

This documentation gets you started using The Life Star for your analysis. Whether you are a scientist, an urban planner, an analyst, or a curious learner, this project will provide valuable insights and opportunities to learn from car crash data and help end the car crash epidemic.