For some housekeeping, if you are not signed up, also make sure to sign up for the RSS feed of my crime de-coder blog. I have not been cross posting here consistently. For the last few posts: Using…| Andrew Wheeler
Easily one of the most common critiques I make when reviewing peer reviewed papers is the concept, the difference between statistically significant and not statistically significant is not itself s…| Andrew Wheeler
Jon Brauer and Jake Day recently wrote a response to my build stuff post, Should more criminologists build stuff on their Reluctant Criminologists blog. Go ahead and follow Jon’s and Jake’s thoughtful work. They asked for comment before posting – I mainly wanted to post my response to be more specific about “how much” I […]| Andrew Wheeler
I have had this thought in my head for a while – criminology research to me is almost all boring. Most of the recent advancement in academia is focused on making science more rigorous – more open methods, more experiments, stronger quasi-experimental designs. These are all good things, but to me still do not fundamentally […]| Andrew Wheeler
Crazy busy with Crime De-Coder and day job, so this blog has gone by the wayside for a bit. I am doing more python training for crime analysts, most recently in Austin. If you want to get a flavor of the training, I have posted a few example videos on YouTube. Here is an example […]| Andrew Wheeler
I shared a series of posts this week using Esri + arcpy tools on my Crime De-Coder LinkedIn page. LinkedIn eventually removes the posts though, so I am putting those same tips here on the blog. Esri’s tools do not have great coverage online, so blogging is a way to get more coverage in those […]| Andrew Wheeler
Line plots are probably the most common type of plot I make. Here are my notes on making nice line plots in matplotlib in python. You can see the full replication code on Github here. First, I will…| Andrew Wheeler
Recently for a crimede-coder project I have been building out a custom library to make nice leaflet maps using the python folium library. See the example I have posted on my website. Below is a scr…| Andrew Wheeler
One of the ideas that has come up with the recent GenAI craze is to use these tools to conduct end-to-end data analysis. So you feed it a dataset + a question and out pops an analysis. Mike Zidar h…| Andrew Wheeler
So my book, Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python, is finally out for purchase on my Crime De-Coder website. Folks anywhere in the world can purchase a paperback or epub copy of the book. You…| Andrew Wheeler
I had a friend the other day interested in a hypothesis along the lines of “I think the mix of crime at a location is different”, in particular they think it will be pushed to more lower level prop…| Andrew Wheeler