Thursday 25 June 2009

20 Visualizations To Understand Crime


There's a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there's a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points - number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred.

While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people's privacy, there's still plenty of publicly available records. Here are twenty visualization examples that explore this data.

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