July 10, 2017

Data Product Using Plotly and R Markdown Presentation

  • For the July, 2017 session of the Coursera course, Developing Data Products

  • Data sourced from FBI website https://ucr.fbi.gov

  • UCR data tool used to pull historical statistics on violent crimes

  • Link to query

  • Presentation created on 10 Jul 2017

Countrywide Violent Crime Rates, 1960 to 2014

National Violent Crime Rates Over Time

  • Rates of violent crime peaked in 1991
  • Declining sharply since then
  • Rates in 1991 more than double 2014 rates in some states
  • Compare the next two slides for NY, CA, FL, IL

Violent Crime Rates by State - 1991

Violent Crime Rates by State - 2014