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by et-al 768 days ago
They didn't normalize the data?

https://xkcd.com/1138/

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Yeah, they didn't. Worse,

> it's clear that some areas experience significantly higher crime rates than others.

(emphasis mine)

"crime rates" — but then the data immediately after that is incident counts. The word "rate" means to measure some quantity against another, usually to find a frequency. And here, that would be per capita.

(The chart Y axis labels are also lopped off. E.g., the max on the one chart for me reads "0,000".)