murder_2016_prelim: A Handful Of Cities Are Driving 2016's Rise In Murder

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Description

The raw data behind the story "A Handful Of Cities Are Driving 2016's Rise In Murder" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-handful-of-cities-are-driving-2016s-rise-in-murders/.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 79 rows representing large US cities and 7 variables:

city

Name of city

state

Name of state

murders_2015

Number of murders in 2015

murders_2016

Number of murder in 2016 (as of as_of date)

change

2016 - 2015

source

Source of data

as_of

2016 murders up to this date

Source

Listed as source variable in dataset


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