The following fields were redacted in order to make this data publicly available:
- Case number
- Decedent
- Primary medical examiner
- COD/Manner medical examiner
The data is comprised of about 18,000 records. It is every person who died in Dallas County from 2012-17.
The data was obtained from the Dallas County medical examiner's office, formally known as the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences.
- Cleaning
- Formatting
- Filtering & analysis
- Types of deaths that can be analyzed
- Accuracy
- "Interviewing" the data
https://interactives.dallasnews.com/2018/secrets-dallas-dead/