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Interesting infographic

Posted by David Hardy · 18 January 2014 03:55 PM

Violent crime levels of the 50 States. The levels can also be broken down by particular offenses.

6 Comments | Leave a comment

Andy | January 18, 2014 7:39 PM | Reply

Why is rape so high in South Dakota?

Basil | January 19, 2014 6:41 AM | Reply

Interesting, but flawed by the decision to use an even number of "bins" (colors), with the result that no state is ever "average" or median in anything: at the center, you are either a little better than average, or a little below average, with no in between.

Peter | January 19, 2014 9:57 AM | Reply

The lack of any type of number on the scale leaves me wondering, is the spread from best to worst a couple of percentage points or an order of magnitude.
The same thing strikes me when I see data that has no labels on the X or Y axis, is the range from 0 to 100% or 75.3 to 76.1

Old Guy | January 19, 2014 11:58 AM | Reply

Basil is correct - in survey data you always try to have an odd number of bins. Same for graphing, etc, odd number is standard

Magnafan | January 20, 2014 9:27 AM | Reply

State info is not useful. County info would be more useful, and breakdown of county info would be most useful.
Let me give you an example:
New York City has five boroughs, which disappear into the state stats. The Bronx, one of the boroughs, has almost two million people. Much of The Bronx is quite lovely, with the Riverdale neighborhood one of the most desirable in The U.S.
But a few blocks here and there are extremely violent. A few blocks in Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, can skew the whole state. Chicago is similar. So is Detroit. In fact, about four percent of the thousands of counties in the U.S. are responsible for eighty percent of the violent crime.

Jeff | January 23, 2014 12:01 PM | Reply

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. This thing is all kinds of wrong. I grew up in Georgia and now live in Alaska. I also work within the criminal justice system in Alaska and have "experience" in the criminal justice system in Georgia. There is much, much more violent crime in Georgia than in Alaska. But their chart suggests the opposite. The enforcement level in Alaska is off the charts. Georgia police are disinclined to arrest someone for assault if there isn't any blood on the ground, whereas Alaskan police will arrest someone over an angry scowl. It totally screws the ability to compare the states statistically.

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