As a crime analyst most of my data is quantitative. Dealing with the assaults that occur I mostly deal with rates (i.e crime, arrest, and clearance). If I’m doing a specific kind of analysis on an assault crime type I may use measures of central tendency such as calculating averages. I usually use these different mathematical methods daily based on the project. Overall I mostly compare the total number of a crime type to the same time frame from years past. Excel is a great tool of taking care of the statistical aspect of our
