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- 1. Fetch datapackage.json to inspect schema and resources
- 2. Download data resources listed in datapackage.json
- 3. Read README.md for full context
Data Files
Explore with AImurder_2015_final
| Field | Type | Format |
|---|---|---|
| city | string | default |
| state | string | default |
| 2014_murders | integer | default |
| 2015_murders | integer | default |
| change | integer | default |
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Download CSVAbout
- Last updated
- 12 March 2026
- Total rows
- ...
- Format
- CSV
- File size
- 2.35 kB
murder_2016_prelim
| Field | Type | Format |
|---|---|---|
| city | string | default |
| state | string | default |
| 2015_murders | integer | default |
| 2016_murders | integer | default |
| change | integer | default |
| source | string | default |
| as_of | string | default |
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Download CSVAbout
- Last updated
- 12 March 2026
- Total rows
- ...
- Format
- CSV
- File size
- 5.8 kB
About this dataset
2016 Murder Data
This folder contains data behind the story A Handful Of Cities Are Driving 2016's Rise In Murder.
murder_2016_prelim.csv contains preliminary 2016 murder counts for 79 large U.S. cities. 2015 figures are counts through the same data a year ago. Sources are listed in the file.
murder_2015_final.csv contains full-year 2014 and 2015 murder counts for all U.S. cities with at least 250,000 residents. Source is FBI Uniform Crime Reports.
This dataset was scraped from FiveThirtyEight - murder_2016