Slice has a nice writeup of a paper I wrote performing a statistical analysis of New York City.  The article is nicely written and distills the analysis to the parts people will care about.  See here for the corresponding PowerPoint presentation.

Jared Lander is the Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics a New York data science firm, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming meetup and the New York and Washington DC R Conferences and author of R for Everyone.