Project conducted in STAT 3355.501.S21 course. Project consisted of obtaining the Seattle Crime Dataset from the government website and utilizing the R Programming language and the ggplot2 package to analyze key findings. The topic and project was student lead. Crime data time frame ranged from 2008-March 2021. The key objective was to determine the impact in Seattle Crimes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Collaboration with two other classmates.
Report: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AmZk6nE6De_nlFOgMj2OzGTK9t3g
The dataset was obtained from Seattle Open Data. The link is below:
https://data.seattle.gov/Public-Safety/SPD-Crime-Data-2008-Present/tazs-3rd5/data
"Only finalized (UCR approved) reports are released. Those in draft, awaiting approval, or completed after the update, will not appear until the subsequent day(s). Data is updated once every twenty-four hours. Records and classification changes will occur as a report makes its way through the approval and investigative process."
- The dataset was obtained on 3/12/2021
- The date range for the report date attribute is [1/1/2008, 3/12/2021)
- The dataset has 891,000 observations with 17 variables. Our R Code modifies the dataset to increase the variable count to 33