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Fun with Credit Card Fraud Data Viz in R!
NOTE: This post is available in a much more aesthetically pleasing and interactive format over at https://www.kaggle.com/alexepperly/analyzing-credit-card-fraud-with-r-part-i. You should totally go there instead. Don’t be stubborn. Do it. Still here, huh? Well, I suppose you are lazy, like the rest of those people on the internet. This is what my R Studio looks like. Just […]
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Crime data in D.C.: What weapons are being used?
After I finished up the last project on DC’s homicides by police work shift and ward, I decided I wanted to use SQL to clean the data a little more, and this time analyze the method used to commit the homicides. The three variables possible in this dataset for method are: Gun Knife Others “Others” […]
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Breaking down COVID-era murders in D.C. by time and place: Is anything changing?
There are a lot of homicides in Washington, D.C. While it’s come a long way since the dark days of the late 80s and early 90s when it had the ignominious sobriquet of “The Murder Capital,” DC — the city of my birth and one of my favorite places on earth — has suffered from […]