Overview

An analysis in R on recent hate crimes motivated by COVID-19 and policies stemming from it, leading to the race bias towards East, Southeast, and South Asians in Toronto via https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/hate-crimes-open-data/ from 2018 until most recently, 2023.

File Structure

The repo is structured as:

• data/raw_data contains the raw data as obtained from opendatatoronto, including the simulated data
• data/analysis_data contains the cleaned dataset that was constructed.
• other contains relevant literature, details about LLM chat interactions, and sketches.
• paper contains the files used to generate the paper, including the Quarto document and reference bibliography file, as well as the PDF of the paper.
• scripts contains the R scripts used to simulate, download and clean data.

Statement on LLM usage

Aspects of the code were written with the help of ChatGpt. It is available in other/llms/usage.txt.