Violent Crime Rates in US

Usha Morris
December 22, 2015

Data : USArrest Dataset

US violent crime rates data is for 1973 for 50 states in the US:

  • crime rate is per 100,000 people
  • % of urban population

User Interactive Shiny App for US Crime Data

User is able to view the type of violent crime rates in US and their relationship to urban population:

  • Murder
  • Assault
  • Rape
  • All Three Above

Cool Visuals : Interactive Choropleth Maps

  • The choropleth map provides an easy way to visualize how a measurement varies across a geographic area. plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-1

Ready for the Crime Rate App?

  • My shiny app for US Crime rate can be viewed here.
  • Code for the app (server.r and ui.r) can be viewed from my account in Github.
  • Documentation to get started on the US Crime Rate App is included in the app.