How Vox Built a Calendar Marking Every Mass Shooting in 2015

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Last year in the United States, 468 people were killed in 372 mass shootings. More than 1,000 were injured.

As Vox reported at the end of 2015, “not a single month in 2015 was free from a mass shooting.”  Mass shootings were defined in their data as incidents in which four or more people were shot.

To illustrate the tragic tally, graphics reporter Sarah Frostenson visualized data from the crowdsourced website Mass Shooting Tracker. She built a calendar that outlines which days saw a mass shooting and how many people were killed or injured on those days.

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