{"product_id":"a-criminologists-guide-to-r-jacob-kaplan-9781032244075","title":"A Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the programming language R and covers the necessary skills to conduct quantitative research in criminology. By the end of this book, a person without any prior programming experience can take raw crime data, be able to clean it, visualize the data, present it using R Markdown, and change it to a format ready for analysis. \u003ci\u003eA Criminologist's Guide to R\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on skills specifically for criminology such as spatial joins, mapping, and scraping data from PDFs, however any social scientist looking for an introduction to R for data analysis will find this useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduction to RStudio including how to change user preference settings.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBasic data exploration and cleaning - subsetting, loading data, regular expressions, aggregating data.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGraphing with ggplot2.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow to make maps (hotspot maps, choropleth maps, interactive maps).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWebscraping and PDF scraping.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProject management - how to prepare for a project, how to decide which projects to do, best ways to collaborate with people, how to store your code (using git), and how to test your code.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacob Kaplan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032244070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032244075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e CRC Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.37h x 6.06w x 0.94d","brand":"Jacob Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087500914943,"sku":"9781032244075","price":115.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f285f9ed-30d8-416f-b93d-08ce1c8b3c2f.jpg?v=1769100420","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-criminologists-guide-to-r-jacob-kaplan-9781032244075","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}