Assignment

Due: Tuesday, October 6
Points: 5

Deliverables

Create a Google spreadsheet in your PADJO2015 folder named: PADJO2015-SFCRIME-PIVOTS

It should include 3 different histograms:

  • A histogram in which Burglary-type crimes are grouped by hour of day
  • A histogram in which Assault-type crimes are grouped by hour of day
  • Top 10 categories of crime, city-wide

Requirements

Obviously, the tutorial on pivot tables and earthquakes will be very handy.

Download the data for this exercise here.

The data originally came from the SF data portal

References

A walkthrough of managing earthquake data and doing basic visualizations with spreadsheets (Part 2 of 3)

A walkthrough of using Pivot Tables to summarize earthquake data across two dimensions, allowing for even more insightful histograms (Part 3 of 3)

Pivot tables are an effective tool for quickly summarizing the facts from a mass of records