Report on Gun Murders

Rafael Irizarry 2018-04-16

Introduction

This is a report on 2010 gun murder rates obtained from FBI reports. The original data was obtained from this Wikipedia page.

We are going to use the following library:

library(tidyverse)

and load the data we already wrangled:

load("rdas/murders.rda")

We note the large state to state variability by generating a barplot showing the murder rate by state: