Chicago
Chicago
Our team has completed a thorough analysis on recent levels of Chicago criminal activity and investigated a multitude of possible patterns shown. We have investigated crime as it pertains to occurrences within different Chicago neighborhoods or locations, different times of the day and/or night, and the nature of crime occurring. We were able to use the insights gained from this analysis to reach our conclusions, and we hope that Chicago city officials can use our data and the associated takeaways to make impactful change, more efficiently allocate scarce resources, and improve the city’s safety.
We utilized our original JSON file, which was a data set that we obtained through the City of Chicago’s database, and converted it into a DataFrame which displayed each criminal occurrence as well as some details such as location, date of occurrence, brief description, and more.
Question 1: What are the top areas in Chicago with the most criminal (and violent criminal) activity?
Question 2: Are there certain parts of the calendar year where crime spikes? Or where certain crimes spike?
Question 3: What types of crime are most frequently occuring?
Question 4: Are they times of the day/night when criminal activity is spiking?
Question 5: Are there any crimes/areas which have abnormally low activity rates? How can we replicate the procedures instituted there to mimic the same effects onto other crimes/areas?