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IRS Scams Analysis

This repository contains data and analysis used for the August 7, 2014 BuzzFeed article "Tax Collection Scams Skyrocket."

Data

• data/FTC_2011-43014.csv: All complaints to the Federal Trade Commission that mention IRS in the complaint. The data was received via a Freedom of Information Request. This is the first half of the data, which contains all complaints from January 1, 2011 through April 30, 2014.

• data/FTC_5114-71014.csv: All complaints to the Federal Trade Commission that mention IRS in the complaint. The data was received via a Freedom of Information Request. This is the second half of the data, which contains all complaints from May 1, 2014 through July 10, 2014 — the data the FTC received the FOIA request.

• data/state_pop_2013.csv: The estimated population of every state in the United States as of July 1, 2013.

• data/state_abbreviations.csv: A CSV designed to convert state abbreviations to full state names. Used to join the states in the FTC data with the population CSV.

Analysis

Analysis for this project was conducted in an IPython notebook, the raw version of which can be found here. A rendered version of the notebook, can be viewed here.