I recently came across Dallas Open Data (https://www.dallasopendata.com/). I’ve used other open data sources, such as NYC Open Data (https://nycopendata.socrata.com/), which at the time of this post has more data sets than Dallas, but hopefully that will change.

The data provided by the Dallas Police Department might be used for criminal background checks, accident analysis, crime analysis, etc… My initial analysis of this data involved finding the number of crimes in each Dallas County Zip Code for 2014.

The Dallas Police Department’s Record Management System (RMS) provides Dallas Open Data with sample data. The new system was added on June 1, 2014, so two sets of data needed to be merged for the analysis.

You can read about how I conducted the analysis or follow along using R at http://rpubs.com/justinnafe/crimes-per-zip-code-in-dallas-2014

Or you can get the code from Github at https://github.com/justinnafe/crimes-by-zip