Download free shapefiles of Mexico including demographic data

R package to download air quality data from more than a 100 monitoring stations throughout Mexico

Use the hoyodecrimen.com API to create maps of Mexico City crime by latitude and longitude

Website and R package with real-time Mexico City pollution, temperature, and wind data

Download updated shapefiles from the 2015 Encuesta Intercensal

The 2015 population survey marked the first time since the 19^th century that the Mexican government included a distinct category for people of Afro-Mexican descent.

Each month the Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública publishes crime information on its website. The crimenmexico website downloads, processes the data, and presents it in an easy to interpret format.

Mexico to be ruled by the PRI for the next three years

The Secretaría de Gobernación just updated the missing persons database (RNPED) to include data up to January 2015. The database now contains information on 25,293 missing persons from the fuero común (local government) and 443 from the fuero federal (federal government).

I downloaded data from the Instituto Nacional Electoral to find out which names are the most overrepresented among the three main political parties in Mexico (PRI, PAN, and PRD). As was to be expected —names are markers of class, income, religion, and geographical regions— there are some major differences in which names the members of each political party bear.