First_group_project

Project Title: Criminal Weather

Team Members: (git repository user name)

• Melanie Nolker (mnolker)
• Lisa Stroh (Lisb020)
• Kathy Nguyen (kcknguyen)
• April Lagnevall (alagnevall)
• Haifa Najdawi (Haifa)

Project Description/Outline:

• Does weather have an impact on a crime? Find if there is a correlation in crime in the city of Denver compared to weather.

• Hypothesis: Weather has an impact on non-traffic crime in Denver.
• Null Hypothesis: Weather does not effect non-traffic crime in Denver.

Research questions to Answer

• Is there a coorelation between crime & weather?

• compare crime rates to weather

Datasets to Be Used:

• Violent Crime: https://www.denvergov.org/opendata/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-crime

-Denver city .csv

• weather API = https://www.worldweatheronline.com/developer/api/docs/historical-weather-api.aspx#qparameter

• Historical filter for Denver for 5 years
• pull mulipule metrics (temp, cloudiness, others?)

Rough breakdown of Tasks:

• Project coordinator - Melanie Nolker

• Crime dataset anaysis:

• Kathy Nguyen
• April Lagnevall

• Weather dataset analysis:

• Haifa Najdawi
• Lisa Stroh