The raw data behind the story "A Handful Of Cities Are Driving 2016's Rise In Murder" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-handful-of-cities-are-driving-2016s-rise-in-murders/.

murder_2015_final

Format

A data frame with 83 rows representing large US cities and 5 variables:

city

Name of city

state

Name of state

murders_2014

Total murders in 2014

murders_2015

Total murders in 2015

change

2015 - 2014

Source

Unknown