The Baltimore Sun analyzed crime data from Open Baltimore for a Oct. 9, 2019 story about the increase in carjackings in 2019 titled "Carjackings spike continues in Baltimore, with incidents up 30% from this time last year" (print headline for Oct. 10, 2019: "Carjackings spike continues").
The Sun's findings and analysis are available in the "analysis" markdown file in this repository: analysis.md.
If you'd like to run the code yourself in R, you can download the R Markdown file analysis.Rmd along with the data in the input folder.
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There are many angles to explore with this data, beyond just the ones we looked into for our story.
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All code in this repository is available under the MIT License. The data files are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.