Project_proposal.txt

Project title: Cause of Death in the USA
Group members: Rahma Ali, Madina Zhaksylyk.
 
Project Description/Outline
Our project will be based on causes of death in the United States from Cancer, 
Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease, Heart Disease, Stroke, and Unintentional Injury 
from the year 2010-2015.

We are interested to discover the following 
1. What causes the most death in the US?
2. Do Nonmetropolitan vs Metropolitan areas at the state level have more 
deaths?
3. Which age group, sex, race, and fixed benchmarks have more death 
rate?

Research Question to Answer
1.	What causes the most death in the US?
2.	What US states have more death rate?


The data were extracted from the following sources:

CSV File 
The CSV File was found on data.gov: NCHS - Potentially Excess Deaths from the Five
Leading Causes of Death.csv (Renamed as NCHS_Causes_of_Death_2005-2015.csv 
in our dataset).
Website/Source
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?
q=Leading+Causes+of+Death+in+the+USA&sort=score+desc%2C+name+asc

API Call 
Used Census.gov to retrieve data on Demographic Characteristics Estimates by Age 
Groups.
Website/Source 
https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/popest-popproj/
popest.Vintage_2015.html#list-tab-2014455046
api.census.gov/data/2015/pep/charagegroups