Projects
You can see more of the projects I’m working on by visiting my GitHub account. Patches and bug reports are always welcome.
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Statistical analysis and visualization of the drug war in Mexico
Lots of charts, choropleths and analysis related to the drug war in Mexico
The expiration of the Assault Weapon Ban and its effect on Mexico
The expiration of the Federal Assault Weapon Ban coincided with an attempt by the Sinaloa Cartel to take over the drug trafficking routes of Nuevo Laredo
Mexico's Drug War: 63,000 extra deaths in 6 years
There habe been about 63,000 excess deaths from December 2006 to December 2012
'Extra' firearm accidents in Sinaloa
The state of Sinaloa had a lot of firearm accidents during the period drug war-related deaths exceeded total homicides
Divorce probabilities in Mexico
How did express divorce affect Mexico? What percentage of marriage en in divorce by cohort?
The capture of 'El Mochomo' coincided with an increase in homicides in Jalisco
Age-Period-Cohort models and the decline of violence in Mexico
Each generation of Mexicans was becoming less and less violent until the drug war happened
Possible manipulation of homicide rates in Mexico
Did the Mexican government manipulate homicide statistics?
Cluster analysis of what the world eats
Pretty clustering of countries according to what they eat
Reproductive Skew
In which countries of the world do men and women have greater reproductive variance
Errors in the Mexican Mortality Database
The Acteal Massacre is recorded as an accident in the Mexican mortality database
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Interactive Map
A web application to visualize and analyze the drug war. It allows you to perform spatial queries and export the data of arbitrary regions of México. (Versión en español)
Monterrey Homicides
The locations most likely to have homicides in the Monterrey metro area
Poll of Polls
Polls of polls of the 2012 Mexican presidential election made with d3, R and JAGS
Crime in Mexico
An interactive map with crime information (homicide, robbery, kidnapping, etc) and the location of the main drug producing regions in Mexico
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Please make a local copy of the data sets since I may decide to update them
Homicides and drug war homicides in one big file (this is the data used for the interactive map)
All homicides recorded by the Mexican vital statistics system between 1990 and 2010, by sex of the victim at the municipality level. This file includes population data (Source and Notes)
All homicides recorded by the Mexican vital statistics system between 1990 and 2010, by age group and sex of the victim at the municipality level (Source and Notes)
Drug war-related homicides Dec 2006 - Sep 2011 (adjusted to match the list of Mexican municipalities below)
List of municipality names, FIPS codes (id), metropolitan areas, longitude and latitude of their main localities, and the "as the crow flies" distance to the US border
All crimes reported by law enforcement (including homicides) at the state and national level from January 1997 to September 2011. Includes population and number of vehicles registered by state
Mexican population estimates 1990-2012 by age group and sex at the municipality level, updated to include data from the 2010 census (Source and Notes)
- Total Mexican population 1990-2012 by age groups
- Male population 1990-2012 by age groups
- Female population 1990-2012 by age groups
If you need a dataset you saw in my blog that is not listed here send me an email. I'm sure it's lying around somewhere