Authors: Dan Evans, Rose Inglis, Cynthia Kunakom, Paul Siekmeier
Our team explored whether there is any correlation between the number of crime incidence and the weather temperature in Silver Spring, Maryland during 2017-2019. We believed that the number of crime incidence may be affected by the weather temperature.
Background Inspiration
In 2014, a Kentucky inmate made an escape from the prison and turned himself back in
because the tempeature outside was too cold. We believe there may be a correlation between the
temperature and the incidence of crime.
Questions to Answer
Is there any correlation between the incidence of crime and the
weather temperature?
Programming Tools
We ran our python code in the jupyter noteboook for this project. The
libraries used to perform data clean-up, data analysis and visualization include: