serial-killers
Project killR: Data on both male and female international serial killers and scripts for scraping, preprocessing, and analyzing data on serial killers.
Description: serial_killers_data
Contains the following scraped data on both male and female international serial killers (N = 576):
- name (full, given, and surnames)
- pseudonym (note: pseudonyms are partially in German)
- country
- sex
- victims (proven, suspected)
- years active (active from-to, active from, active to)
- geocoded country locations (longitude, latitude)
Data source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Serienmördern
Description: serial_killers_analysis
The script covers
- scraping Wikipedia tables containing information on international serial killers
- wrangling scraped data
- geocoding the killers' locations by country using Google Maps API
- mapping the killers' locations as both points and polygons with leaflet and ggplot2
using the abovementioned data set on N = 576 serial killers.
Description: Serial_killers_US
The script covers
- scraping a Wikipedia table containing information on US serial killers
- wrangling scraped data
- scraping a Wikipedia table containing US states and extracting information on the killers' locations from strings
- predicting the killers' sex based on their given names using gender and genderdata
- scraping a Wikipedia table containing causes of death and extracting information on the killers' causes of death from strings
- visualizing the killers' causes of death, number of victims, and sex
- mapping the killers' locations
using the example of serial killers in the US.