Different Ways to Visualize Time and Date Homicide Data From Baltimore

Don’t limit yourself to simple graphs, or simple maps.

René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
8 min readJul 6, 2022

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Baltimore City in Maryland is one of the world’s most violent cities, constantly ranking in the top 50 most violent cities in the world, and the top five most violent cities in the United States. The reasons for this are many, and they are complex. Baltimore suffered from systemic racism and segregation, from being a port city with major highways, and from corruption and betrayal of the public’s trust by their elected

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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH

DrPH in Epidemiology. Associate/JHBSPH. Adjunct/GMU. Epidemiologist. Father. Husband. (He/Him/His/El)