Visualizing the Factors Associated With Homicide in Philadelphia in 2022 Using Publicly Available Data

The dots on a map may seem like they are clustering, but are they just indicating the clustering of something else?

Using Philadelphia’s open data portal, I downloaded the Part 1 crime data reported between January 1 and November 8, 2022. I then filtered the data for only criminal homicides, and I threw the location of those homicides on the map of neighborhoods in Philadelphia shown…