Spreadsheets are very important in the world that we live in today. Companies use it to gain data on competition and organize things in their own office. Spreadsheets are good for informational purposes and at a journalistic stand point one would find Spreadsheets vital to the story that one is working on.
I did research on the violent crime rate in Detroit from 1985 to 1997. From the data ascertained there were many numbers that really jump out at you. In 1991 and 1992 one out of every 37 people experienced a violent crime. The average rate for people who experienced a violent crime from 85 to 97 was one out of every 43 people. The total crime, which includes murder or manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, averaged out to 23,671 violent crimes per year. The two most frequently reported crimes were robbery averaging in at 10,244 per year and Aggravated assault coming in first averaging 11,941 per year. One thing I found very interesting was depleting population rate of the city. In 1985 the population of Detroit was at a healthy 1,090,581; and once reaching its high of 1,096,947 in ’86. But in the year 2007 the population was 860,971, a population decrease of approximately 21 percent. Staggering numbers to say the least.
This information is vital from a journalistic stand point because one has so many different numbers to use which can help provide or point about the story. It is also important in the case of the security of the people of the city of Detroit and people that plan to move there. With this type of information at your disposal you can possibly save your self from being a victim on crimes or because of the population decreasing rate you probably would second guess moving there in the first place.
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