What has the Strongest Influence on Crime in the US?

University of Iowa Hackathon October, 2018 (4th Place Overall Winner out of 48 Teams)

Overview

  • Developed a web application that shows a statistical analysis between crime rates and  public school funding, per capita income, minimum wage, and unemployment rates for every state in the U.S. between 2010 and 2014.
  • Gathered, cleaned and ran regression analyses on all data to find which factor had the highest correlation to an increase in crime rate.
  • Inserted the data into the Oracle Database to create multiple visualizations via Oracle APEX.

Technologies Used

  • Oracle APEX (Oracle Application Express)
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Excel (For Statistical Analysis using Regression)
  • HTML
  • CSS

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