US Accidents Exploratory Data Analysis

• This is a countrywide car accident dataset that covers 49 states of the USA. The accident data were collected from February 2016 to March 2023, using multiple APIs that provide streaming traffic incident (or event) data.
• The data is available on Kaggle at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sobhanmoosavi/us-accidents
• The dataset currently contains approximately 7.7 million accident records.
• The data columns include varying columns as :
  • state, country, city, street ( for location analysis)
  • start_time, end_time, timezone (for time based analysis)
  • weather, wind chill, humidity ( for weather based analysis)
  • source (from where data is obtained)
• The analysis on this dataset can be used for numerous applications such as
  • real-time car accident prediction,
  • studying car accident hotspot locations,
  • casualty analysis, extracting cause and effect rules to predict car accidents,
  • studying the impact of precipitation or other environmental stimuli on accident occurrence.
  • The most recent release of the dataset can also be useful for studying the impact of COVID-19 on traffic behavior and accidents.