Mapping Seattle Crime

Last week I published a data visualization of San Francisco crime.

This week, I’m mapping Seattle crime data.

The map above is moderately complicated to create, so I’ll start this tutorial with a simpler case: the dot distribution map.

Seattle crime map, simplified version

First, we’ll start by loading the data.

Note that I already “cleaned” this dataset (mostly removing extraneous variables, data prior to 2010, etc,).