Overview # The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) puts out an annual report that summarizes the recent year’s experiences with Internet crime. It includes analysis that hints at the availability of quantitative data (versus purely qualitative anecdotes). Here’s a copy of the IC3’s latest report. Data # The available data is embedded in the reports themselves, which are in .pdf – less than ideal. ...
Updated March 26, 2022 Overview # The Washington Post has spent the last several years collecting details of fatal shootings by on-duty police officers. Since 2015, over 7,000 cases have been added to this dataset. For more details, check out the Washington Post article. I intend to tregularly return to review and revise the analysis on this page as the underlying data is updated. ...
Overview # A common metric that real estate investors rely on to determine where to invest is the price to rent ratio. This is a fairly simple formula: \(Price to Rent Ratio = \frac{Median Home Price}{Median Annual Rent}\). A high price to rent ratio suggests that the demand for rentals is high within a given market. The general idea is that if real estate prices within a given area are extremely high relative to rent, renting will be far more financially accessible than buying, which would drive up the demand for rentals. ...