ArgentBells
2 months ago
[Data/CW:Criminal Acts/Violence/Harm to Minors] So I teach research methods
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ArgentBells
2 months ago
And part of that is having my students run statistical programs to data sets
ArgentBells
2 months ago
because the temptation to not use the program is so high, I have to make the data something ridiculous
ArgentBells
2 months ago
Case in point, my first data set was a listing of meteor landings, the size, scale, and date they landed
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ArgentBells
2 months ago
that had... 30,000 entries?
ArgentBells
2 months ago
point is, you couldn't do it by hand
ArgentBells
2 months ago
Well, I'm at it again and I want to pull out a different data set because what was done last year might be used by this year's students
ArgentBells
2 months ago
well, what I found was
ArgentBells
2 months ago
Crime_Data_from_2020_to_Present, LA
ArgentBells
2 months ago
First of all, I can't use it. There is 970,000 listings. My computer about bricked itself trying to analyze the stuff
ArgentBells
2 months ago
That said, uh
ArgentBells
2 months ago
...some of the results were pretty
ArgentBells
2 months ago
...well, here
ArgentBells
2 months ago
https://images.plurk.com/cKoNVgtKTJvGy2lFOLMWu.png
ArgentBells
2 months ago
26.2% being less than a year old... yiiikes, man
Bing Bong
2 months ago
ArgentBells
2 months ago
Mean age was 29.17, St. Dev was 21.95
ArgentBells
2 months ago
This was also interesting
ArgentBells
2 months ago
https://images.plurk.com/fR1QMUpi5ppRfkj1TDitw.png
ArgentBells
2 months ago
https://images.plurk.com/cCXF7Hs985w9Vopg1pwWJ.png
ArgentBells
2 months ago
now, it should be noted these aren't fatalities, they are "criminal offenses involving someone"
E.S. Levi
2 months ago
...Can't say I'm surprised the group of weapons with BB gun in it is so high. People really treat those things as more harmless than they are.
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