Recent Improvements in Data From the Gun Violence Archive—Will They Lead to Change?

Abstract

Gobaud and colleagues 1 performed an important validation study of data from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that collects data from various governmental and other sources daily "to provide comprehensive data for the national conversation regarding gun violence." 2 The data set contains information on shootings from public records and public media from across the US with a high level of detail, such as the geographic coordinates of the event and the total number of individuals killed or injured.