THIS README IS FOR THE DATA/PROCESSED_DATA/CRIME/POINT_PATTERN DIRECTORY.

THIS DIRECTORY CONTAINS THE CRIME DATA SETS FOR EACH CITY AND FOR HOMICIDE AND MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS RATHER THAN ALL CRIMES CONTAINED WITHIN THE OPEN DATA. THESE DATA WERE CREATED IN DATA/RAW_DATA/CRIME FOR LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK AND PORTLAND.

THE DATA FILES (COPIED OVER FROM THE RAW_DATA DIRECTORY) ARE NOT CONTAINED WITHIN THIS ARCHIVED FOLDER BUT CAN BE CREATED THROUGH THE R FILES IN THE RELEVANT RAW_DATA DIRECTORY. WHILE WE DO NOT HAVE THE DATA FILES ARCHIVED, WE DISCUSS THE NAMING CONVENTIONS BELOW AS THEY ARE USED WITHIN THE R SCRIPT.

- *_hom.rds: this contains the crime data, locations and dates for the homicide data in city *.
- *_hom_sf.rds: this contains the same data as *_hom.rds but saved as class sf.
- *_gta.rds: this contains the crime data, locations and dates for the motor vehicle theft data in city *.
- *_gta_sf.rds: this contains the same data as *_gta.rds but saved as class sf.

 

