As promised, here are the first time-series data graphs, the average month by month violent crime index for the entire period for which I have collected/processed data. This bird’s eye view...
https://chicagocrime.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/violent-crime-trends-by-side-of-city/
In my perpetual quest to walk the line between readability and informativeness, I have divided the colors into groups, roughly modeled after their electromagnetic frequencies, and then created fo...
https://chicagocrime.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/violent-crime-map-edited-once-again/
Despite the lack of activity on this blog, the Chicago Crime Project has been ongoing. Specifically, I have continued to collect dataand have been improving the method of interpreting the data....
https://chicagocrime.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/and-were-back/
John and I began researching Chicago Crime and its relationship with demographic factors as students in the Empirical Methods of the Law class taught by Professors Ulen, Robbenolt, and Lawless at...
https://chicagocrime.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/chicago-crime-presentation-and-paper/
At long last, here is the promised value-for-the-money map. Essentially, everything low ranked (purple/blues) has low median rent relative to the violent crime. The middle rankings have viol...
https://chicagocrime.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/violent-crimes-and-median-rents/
Here is a map of the median rent (2005) estimations for each of the 77 Chicago Community areas. The colors are a bit different than usual. They are arranged with the lower ranked areas having...
https://chicagocrime.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/median-rent-map/
Thanks first to our small but helpful commentariat. Just because your suggestions have not been acted upon does not mean they are (entirely) without merit. We have been busy actually updati...
No blog can be truly taken seriously without regular features (no blog I say). I am happy to introduce our first regular feature: Best Place. Essentially, I will pick several criminal activit...
This is the first little map I’ve put together. It ranks the 77 Chicago Community Areas in terms of violent/serious crime. Lower ranked areas have less violent/serious crime (defined below)...
https://chicagocrime.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/violentserious-crime-map/
Welcome to the Chicago Crime Blog. Let’s crunch some numbers.