Yesterday Brett Goldstein, the Chief Data Officer for the City of Chicago, announced on Twitter the release of Chicago’s crime data for the past year. The data is very detailed, and wonderful resource for criminologist and social scientists alike. I have been playing around with the data a bit, ... [Read more...]

I would like to thank Tal Galili for establishing and maintaining the blog aggregator at R-bloggers. This site has been added to their directory and new posts which are tagged with R will now appear on their feed. https://www.r-bloggers.com/ In part a, I presented a series of ... [Read more...]

In recent months, there has been a series of high profile incidents in the United States where police officers were killed. While such events are unfortunate, the data suggests that it is extremely rare for an officer to be harmed or killed while on duty. In this post, I examine ... [Read more...]