Criminologist's Guide to R (eBook)

Crime by the Numbers

Jacob Kaplan (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
432 Seiten
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-000-62894-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers introduces the programming language R and covers the necessary skills to conduct quantitative research in criminology. By the end of this book, a person without any prior programming experience can take raw crime data, be able to clean it, visualize the data, present it using R Markdown, and change it to a format ready for analysis. A Criminologist's Guide to R focuses on skills specifically for criminology such as spatial joins, mapping, and scraping data from PDFs, however any social scientist looking for an introduction to R for data analysis will find this useful.Key Features: Introduction to RStudio including how to change user preference settings. Basic data exploration and cleaning - subsetting, loading data, regular expressions, aggregating data. Graphing with ggplot2. How to make maps (hotspot maps, choropleth maps, interactive maps). Webscraping and PDF scraping. Project management - how to prepare for a project, how to decide which projects to do, best ways to collaborate with people, how to store your code (using git), and how to test your code.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Computerprogramme / Computeralgebra
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-000-62894-9 / 1000628949
• ISBN-13: 978-1-000-62894-4 / 9781000628944