Is there a temporal pattern for crime? Assault rates in New York City
An attempt to find assault patterns over time and investigate if time could serve as a predictor for assault in the third degree in New York City. 11% of all reported offenses were assaults in the third degree, making it the third most common criminal offense in New York City in 2016. The data was downloaded from the New York City Open Data Portal. (Image left: Curve fitting on assault counts over a day.) Full report