# thanksgiving

Published articles for thanksgiving.

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## Holidays and Homicide

DevFeed: [Holidays and Homicide](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/holidays-and-homicide-40249.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2011/11/25/holidays-and-homicide/>)

Published: 2011-11-25T16:33:21Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [Statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/statistics.md>), [math](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/math.md>)

Tags: [crime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crime.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-visualization.md>), [holidays](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/holidays.md>), [homicide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/homicide.md>), [math](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/math.md>), [mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mathematics.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/statistics.md>), [thanksgiving](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/thanksgiving.md>)

### AI overview

The article examines homicide counts by calendar day using a dataset of known San Francisco homicides from 1849 to 2003. It compares holidays and other dates with the median count, while cautioning that the dataset should not support broad conclusions about human behavior.

### Source excerpt

A Study In Data Just before midnight on Thanksgiving, there was a murder by gunshot about four blocks from my home. Luckily I was in bed by then, but all of the commotion over the incident got me thinking: is murder disproportionately more common on Thanksgiving? What about Christmas, Valentine's Day, or Saint Patrick's Day? Of course, with the right data set these are the kinds of questions one can answer!