Projects

You can see more of the projects I’m working on by visiting my GitHub account. Patches and bug reports are always welcome.

Data Analysis
Interactive
Data Sets

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

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
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)

Crime in Mexico
An interactive map with crime information (homicide, robbery, kidnapping, etc) and the location of the main drug producing regions in Mexico
Please make a local copy of the data sets since I may decide to update them

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)
- Homicides 1990-2010 by sex (includes total population)
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)
- Homicides 1990-2010 by age group and sex
Drug war-related homicides Dec 2006 - Dec 2010 (adjusted to match the list of Mexican municipalities below)
- Drug Homicides Dec 2006 - Dec 2010
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
- List of Mexican municipalities in 2007
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
- Yearly crime 1997 - 2010
- Monthly crime Jan 1997 - Oct 2011
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)