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title: "Crime by the Numbers: A Criminologist’s Guide to R"
author: "Jacob Kaplan"
date: "2023-01-07"
tags: [Guide]
link: "https://r4crim.com/"
length_weight: "8.2%"
repo: "jacobkap/crimebythenumbers"
pinned: false
---

A guide to learning R for the purpose of conducting quantitative research. This covers collecting and cleaning data, and visualizing it in graphs and maps. [...] This book introduces the programming language R and is meant for undergrads or graduate students studying criminology. R is a programming language that is well-suited to the type of work frequently done in criminology - taking messy data and turning it into useful information. While R is a useful tool for many fields of study, this book focuses on the skills criminologists should know and uses crime data for the example data sets. If  ...
