Boston Crime Overview

What can we learn about crimes in the Boston area?

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Incidents

The dataset we used gave us many different types of crimes committed, categorized by offence code.

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Location

Using latitude, longitude, street, and district codes we are able to ask questions and analyze trends about crimes committed in different areas in Boston.

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Time of Occurence

By looking at the hour, day, month, and year of crimes committed, we can find interesting trends on when certain crimes are more or less likely to be committed.

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GitHub

We collaborated our code using GitHub, check out our full project here

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Resources

Find out what dataset we used, what technologies we used and other information we gathered to answer our questions.

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Meet the Dream Team

We worked really hard to create this project because we have a strong belief that the data visualizations will tell a meaningful story and that our work will have a significant impact on people in Boston.

Our Goal

To answer questions about the Boston Crimes data set and create easy to read data visualizations that accurately analyze the data and tell a significant and meaningful story.

Meet the Team

We are Group 8 and we love learning about Database Design!

Year: Third Year

Major: Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology

Favorite Animal: Whale 🐳

- Katie Busemeyer

Year: Fourth Year

Major: Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology

Favorite Animal: Squirrel 🐿

- Sarah Chou

Year: Third Year

Major: Computer Science and Business

Favorite Animal: Whale 🐳

- Megan Lau

Year: Fourth Year

Major: Business

Favorite Animal: Whale 🐳

- Fang Wu

Year: Second Year

Major: Computer Science and Business Administration

Favorite Animal: Squirrel 🐿

- Abby Zahne